A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of a crewed interstellar generation ship. Human technology has allowed us to extend the scope of our ...

A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-term interstellar travel, potentially lasting centuries. The concept involves an initial crew living, reproducing, and dying aboard ...

"Passengers" is set in a large interstellar starship, cruising between Earth and a nearby star system. The human cargo is in deep sleep, some 1,500 of them, during the 120-year journey to their ...

Science fiction likes to imagine interstellar vehicles as sleek, aerodynamic ships. But theres no air in space, and voyaging to the stars will require something that looks much different than an ...

The world ship is probably one of th eoldest concepts for manned interstellar flight. Martin gives a concise overview of past world ship concepts, dating back to J.D.Bernal in the 1920. In 1984, Bond ...

The design contest is organized by Project Hyperion and sponsored by the Initiative for Interstellar Studies, a British non-profit. Anyone can submit an entry as long as they pay a $20 ...

A generation ship is a theoretical type of spacecraft designed for long-duration interstellar travel, where the journey may take centuries or millennia to complete. The idea behind a generation ship ...

In Poul Anderson's 1970 novel Tau Zero, a starship crew seeks to travel to the star Beta Virginis in hopes of colonizing a new planet.The ship's mode of propulsion was a so-called "Bussard ramjet ...

The spaceship Endurance, made up of 12 different modules, was designed according to the physical laws that would actually govern interstellar travel, says visual effects supervisor Ian Hunter.

Interstellar travel won't be possible for at least 200 years, according to a former NASA propulsion scientist who has some new calculations. And by then, the spaceships we would design for the ...

A generation ship is a hypothetical spacecraft designed for long-term interstellar travel, potentially lasting centuries. The concept involves an initial crew living, reproducing, and dying aboard ...