NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have jointly announced a prize of $ 500,000 grant to the person or group with the most effective idea of how the human interstellar space travel a reality to get through the next century.
A DARPA official last week presented the award to the most effective scenario for financing and implementing a research and development lead to interstellar travel, reports the Christian Science Monitor to determine.
The price is expected to be announced in November, is the final stage in the will by then have a year-long collaboration between DARPA and NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The money is the remains of an initial pool of $ 1,000,000 - mostly from the DARPA - the project, called the 100 years of the Starship Study, to get running.
The technological hurdles just to reach interstellar space travel is high - driven by the enormous distances.
Actual funding is as challenging as technology, says David Neyland, director of the Tactical Technology Office at DARPA.
"Reaching for the stars in the next century will be a continued interest and investment over a long period of need," he added.
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