This sounds promising, we'll see;
http://unisci.com/stories/19994/1124991.htm
Safe, reliable, affordable transportation has been the
key to exploration and development of frontiers that
emerged throughout history," said Dr. Row Rogacki,
director of the Space Transportation Directorate at
the Marshall Center. "And transportation is again the
driver as we boldly prepare to explore and develop the
largest frontier of all -- the space frontier.
Marshall scientists and engineers are conducting
fundamental research into exotic high-energy
propulsion required for travel to the outer planets
and other star systems. Sails propelled through space
by sunlight -- just as wind pushes sailboats on Earth
-- could be used for an interstellar precursor mission
as soon as 2010.
Marshall is also experimenting with antimatter, fusion
and fission as propulsion alternatives for deep space
travel in the third millennium. And NASA is also
involved in basic research on the leading edge of
modern science and engineering, such as space and time
warping, gravity manipulation and theories that might
enable faster-than-light travel.
Through intense technology development that will make
space transportation safe and affordable for ordinary
people, NASA is building a highway to space for the
21st century and unlocking the door to the final
frontier.
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Maybe they are finally recognizing that rockets aren't
the way....but they need to FUND THE MAVERICKS...low
cost research to find the basics and they can develop
it to the large scale versions...
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