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Innovative Interstellar Explorer
ljk4-1
post Mar 8 2006, 03:05 PM
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"The Innovative Interstellar Explorer is a NASA "Vision Mission" study funded by NASA following a proposal under NRA-03-OSS-01 on 11 September 2003. This study has focused on the elusive quest to reach and measure the interstellar medium, the "undiscovered country" outside of the influence of the nearest star, our Sun."

The plan is for a launch in 2014 to reach 200 AU in about 30 years.

http://interstellarexplorer.jhuapl.edu/


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"After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance.
I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard,
and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does
not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is
indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have
no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft."

- Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853

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- ljk4-1   Innovative Interstellar Explorer   Mar 8 2006, 03:05 PM
- - Adam   I heard of a mission like this one, but it would r...   Mar 8 2006, 07:01 PM
|- - ljk4-1   Some more online references for IIE: http://gltrs...   Mar 20 2006, 09:19 PM
|- - mchan   QUOTE (Adam @ Mar 8 2006, 11:01 AM) I hea...   Mar 21 2006, 04:41 AM
- - Stephen   Try also: http://interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov/ ====...   Mar 21 2006, 01:36 AM
- - Stephen   Another URL here: http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/SE...   Mar 21 2006, 02:16 AM
- - ljk4-1   The latest piece on Centauri Dreams discusses the ...   Jan 10 2007, 10:25 PM
- - Stephen   Last week's (ie 6 January 2007) issue of ...   Jan 11 2007, 07:23 AM
|- - ngunn   QUOTE (Stephen @ Jan 11 2007, 07:23 AM) L...   Jan 11 2007, 10:08 AM
- - John Flushing   The website calls the proposed vehicle "The f...   Jan 12 2007, 02:06 AM
|- - Stephen   QUOTE (John Flushing @ Jan 12 2007, 01:06...   Jan 15 2007, 02:13 PM
- - marsbug   I'm not sure I'd consider either to by a t...   Jan 12 2007, 01:41 PM
|- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (marsbug @ Jan 12 2007, 01:41 PM) I...   Jan 12 2007, 06:36 PM
|- - helvick   OK you're slaying me there Bob.   Jan 13 2007, 12:06 AM
- - nprev   I agree with you. The term 'starship' to m...   Jan 15 2007, 02:19 PM
- - Bob Shaw   QUOTE (nprev @ Jan 15 2007, 02:19 PM) I a...   Jan 15 2007, 10:02 PM

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