NASA Ames Director Simon “Pete” Worden revealed in 2010 that NASA Ames has “Just started a project with DARPA called The 100 Year Starship,” with $1 million funding from DARPA & $100K from NASA.
“You heard it here,” said Worden at “Long Conversation,” a Long Now Foundation event in San Francisco. “We also hope to inveigle some billionaires to form a Hundred Year Starship fund,” Dr. Worden added. “I absolutely will be on board.”
“The human space program is now really aimed at settling other worlds,” he explained. “Twenty years ago you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired.”(Worden was in fact fired by President George W. Bush, he also revealed.)
http://www.darpa.mil/ (DARPA)
http://100yss.org/ (100YSS)
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