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... '''Keywords''' - interstellar exploration, financing, World ships, Daedalus, Icarus, interstellar colonization '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2012.65.134 '''Number of Pages''' - 6 Abstract The development and deployment of world ships or other feats of interstellar exploration will ... world ship or another interstellar project started in this generation is to establish an international network of non governmental organizations (NGOs) focused on private and public fundraising for interstellar exploration and supporting a ...

... rooted in the following precepts: Humans are genetically disposed to explore and to find new ways to survive; Space exploration, habitation and utilization by and for Earth's humanity ... competitive boundaries" as stated by Dr. Ken Cox? Also does the model provide a fundamental organizational structure that could be applied to the ATWG proposed "Interstellar Space University" (The Interstellar ...

... Naval Research in 1987. Following is a summary of some relevant points. '''The report explores four different neural structures that are necessary for the existence and functioning of "vision": ''' ... is a boundary (of some object), the only way to perceive that boundary-image is to determine its own boundaries. The subsequent step defines the boundary-of-the-boundary-of-the-boundary, and so ...

... , interstellar rendezvous '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2011.64.378 '''Number of Pages''' - 9 Abstract While interstellar missions have been explored in the literature, one mission architecture has not received much attention, namely the interstellar rendezvous ... architecture is proposed that would allow for an unmanned interstellar rendezvous and return mission. The approach utilized for the Vacuum to Antimatter-Rocket Interstellar Explorer System (VARIES) would lead to system components and ...

... ''' - 71-75 '''Year''' - 2006 '''Keywords''' - Interstellar space, interstellar mission, interstellar medium, RTG, electric propulsion. '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.71 '''Number of Pages''' - 5 Abstract A mission to interstellar space has been under discussion ... large fission-reactor-powered nuclear electric propulsion systems. We present an alternative approach - the Innovative Interstellar Explorer - based on Radioisotope Electric Propulsion. A high-energy, current-technology launch of the small spacecraft ...

... of key stakeholders is vital. Although previous publications identified political and societal preconditions to an interstellar exploration program, there is a lack of more specific scientific and political stakeholder scenarios. This paper ... but unprecedented scenarios are considered as well. Although it is very difficult to sustain an interstellar exploration program, there are scenarios in which this seems to be possible, e.g. the discovery ...

... , heliopause, interstellar medium, ENA, EUV '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.54 '''Number of Pages''' - 5 Abstract The region where the expanding solar wind meets the surrounding galactic medium remains poorly explored. The ... needs to be charted for optimizing our first foray into interstellar space by the Interstellar Probe mission and for supporting the truly interstellar exploration of the future. The present concepts of the heliospheric interface ...

... , Daedalus, Pathfinder, Starfinder, interstellar precursor missions, VASIMR '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2012.65.244 '''Number of Pages''' - 11 Abstract Project Icarus is a theoretical engineering design study tasked to explore the technical feasibility of sending an unmanned interstellar probe to a nearby star system. It is the successor study to ...

... 59 '''Page ''' - 99-103 '''Year''' - 2006 '''Keywords''' - aerocapture, electric propulsion, solar sails, interstellar propulsion '''JBIS Reference Code ''' - 2006.59.99 '''Number of Pages''' - 5 Abstract ... technologies that have the potential to revolutionize the robotic exploration of deep space. For robotic exploration and science missions, increased efficiencies of future propulsion ...

... present state of ignorance, on subjects related to interstellar travel. The science and technology of the future that would be available for building interstellar space ships would indeed be quite different ... thinking what it will take to mount such an undertaking so that we can begin exploring various scientific and engineering possibilities now -- rather than wait endlessly for 'the right time' ...

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