DARPA Requests Information for 100 Year Starship Study The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is requesting ideas and information to help get the recently launched 100 Year Starship Study a little further off the ground. Specifically, DARPA is interested in business model proposals for sustaining private investment in long-distance interstellar travel over the next [...]

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