Project Icarus (reference from InstaPundit)
Once only the realm of science fiction with fine examples offered by Heinlein, Bradbury, Herbert and many others, inter-stellar travel is not only part of a feasibility study by the British Interplanetary Society, it has recently been added to the research agenda of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
“Why do we pay this obsessive attention to backing up a document, which we can reproduce, when we pay no attention to backing up our civilization?” – Andreas Tziolas, Project Leader, Project Icarus
It’s about time.
Per Aspera Ad Astra – NASA Motto
Gunsmoke and Knitting 