NASA preps "100-year-spacecraft"

Start to show a profit on space travel and we will see this happen. Which means back to the Moon, a permanate base, then Lunar Resource collection and processing. For this you need Industry, not Government space programs. Then we will go on to explore. For more money making resource's of course.

NASA should have been doing this forty years ago instead of wasting time with rockets that have never worked I hoped they have fianly gotted their act together but teaming up with DARPA would come under the power of the military more than they are now. What rockets were those that never worked?

It's an interesting concept. Probably workable as well. I think, however, that we're looking at the words of a NASA Center Director who's doing what he can (and God bless him for it...it's probably a workable concept!) without a budget or a mandate. This is someone who completely understands mankind's need to explore, fully realizes that the space exploration program, recently scrapped from the Federal budget, is mankind's future, and fully understands NASA's lack of ability to do so at the moment.

Not so near future, but eventually maybe we are capable of interplanetary travel now, with humans. but since a mission to mars is at least 2 years, we need to send couples and not 4 people sitting in a chair for that length of time. we will need to build a real spaceship in space. one that will never see planetary surfaces.

I look forward to hearing about the method and propulsion used.

the government should be doing what it has been doing research and exploring. business should do what it does best make it pay.

$1100000 exactly what do they expect to do with this micro-budget!? Some really snazzy concept art.

This sound like hopla.

it blows my mind that 300 years ago it took people 6 months to a year to get across the ocean and now it take 6 months to get to mars woah!

it blows my mind that 300 years ago it took people 6 months to a year to get across the ocean and now it take 6 months to get to mars woah! Good point. It is amazing how fast technology has progress.