page 60, Excerpt from the 114TH CONGRESS REPORT of the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 2d Session <\/a><\/p>\n“The Committee encourages NASA to study and develop propulsion concepts that could enable an interstellar scientific probe with the capability of achieving a cruise velocity of 0.1c. These efforts shall be centered on enabling such a mission to Alpha Centauri, which can be launched by the one-hundredth anniversary, 2069, of the Apollo 11 moon landing.” <\/i><\/p>\n
“…within one year of enactment of this Act, NASA shall submit an interstellar propulsion technology assessment report with a draft conceptual roadmap, which may include an overview of potential advance propulsion concepts for such an interstellar mission, including technical challenges, technology readiness level assessments, risks, and potential near-term milestones and funding requirements.”<\/p>\n
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May 2016 www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2016\/05\/us-lawmaker-orders-nasa-plan-trip-alpha-centauri-100th-anniversary-moon-landing “Although such approaches may seem impossibly sci-fi for many space scientists, the report also refers to ‘beam energy approaches.’ The report mentions that the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program is already funding a study of \u201cdirected energy propulsion for wafer-sized spacecraft that in principle could achieve velocities exceeding 0.1c.\u201d (UCSB NASA…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/128.111.23.62\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}