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The 100-Year Starship study (100YSS) will seek ideas and data to identify the business model needed to develop and mature a technology portfolio that will enable long-distance manned space flight a century from now. The year-long study aims to develop a construct that will incentivize and facilitate private co-investment to ensure continuity of the lengthy technological time horizon needed to achieve interstellar travel.

The 100 Year Starship™ is the name of the overall program that will, over the next century, work towards achieving interstellar travel. The program will also go by the moniker “100YSS.” The 100 Year Starship Study is the name of a one year project.

The 100-Year Starship program is more than building a spacecraft or any one specific technology. DARPA seeks to inspire several generations to commit to the research and development of breakthrough technologies and cross-cutting innovations across a myriad of disciplines such as physics, mathematics, engineering, biology, economics, and psychological, social, political and cultural sciences to pursue the goal of long-distance space travel while delivering ancillary benefits along the way that will benefit mankind.

Events
100 Year Starship Study Public Symposium

The 100 Year Starship Study public symposium is being held from September 30 through October 2, 2011 at the Hilton Convention Center in Orlando, FL. Attendance to the 100 YSS Symposium is free and open to the public. The event is expected to attract roughly 2,000 people from throughout the U. S. as well as from other countries.

The 100 YSS public symposium will present 7 topic tracks, special events, keynote speakers, a Sci fi authors' discussion panel and exhibits. The 100 YSS public symposium is a follow up to the January Strategic Planning Workshop.

Resources
100 Year Starship Resource Downloads