Competition to Design Human Crewed Interstellar Spaceships
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6S19P)
Project Hyperion explores the feasibility of crewed interstellar travel via generation ships, using current and near-future technologies. A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries to complete. The idea behind a generation ship is that the initial crew would live, reproduce, and die on the ...