NASA Awards Washington Propulsion Research Grant

Assuming a near light-speed propulsion
system were invented, getting to Proxima Centauri (the star nearest to the
Sun) would take 4.

There are bigger problems, he adds. Institutions and maximum grant value:

- Smithsonian Institution: $172,000
- Naval Research Laboratory: $435,000

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"That could cause real social
problems over time as a space traveler gets farther and farther out of date
with their contemporaries.

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The program also covers cosmochemical studies concerned with the formation and
chemical development of the solar system.
The research also supports the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA's long-
term plan to return astronauts to the moon and extend exploration to Mars and
beyond.

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Hubbard believed that interstellar travel and space exploration were the
hope for humanity.

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Meaning? "Space
travelers returning to Earth would have experienced only a few years, while
decades could have passed on Earth ," says Dr.

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Einstein's 1905 theory of special
relativity says that if we could travel at or near the speed of light,
time, as regulated by a stationary point such as Earth, would differ
greatly from time as measured on the moving vessel. Indeed, Hubbard based his classic 1950 novel "To the Stars" on the
possibilities of the theory itself.com.

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WASHINGTON, NASA's Science Mission Directorate has
selected the Aerojet Redmond Rocket Center, Redmond, Wash. In fact, in the novel Hubbard writes, "Earth will not
live forever.

NASA Awards District Science Grants

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The purpose of the research is to enable or reduce trip times, mass,
and/or cost associated with NASA science missions to the outer planets,
satellites, and other solar system destinations. And a theoretical philosopher, Albert Einstein, showed its
application .tothestars.

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The research also supports the Vision for Space Exploration, NASA's long-
term plan to return astronauts to the moon and extend exploration to Mars and
beyond into the solar system . In the introduction to the novel,
Hubbard states: "Two mathematicians derived the equations first -- Lorentz
and Fitzgerald. WASHINGTON, NASA's Science Mission Directorate,
Solar System Division , Washington, selected two local District institutions
for grants to support the agency's Cosmochemistry Research Program.
The program supports research to conduct laboratory studies of a variety
of extraterrestrial materials such as meteorites, cosmic dust, and lunar
samples, which are cosmochemical in nature.

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, for a grant to
develop advanced propulsion technologies for use beyond Earth orbit..

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maximum potential value of the grant is $600,000.gov/home

But if Lorentz and Fitzgerald and Einstein gave man his Solar
System, they almost denied to him the stars.

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Researchers have discovered the possibility
of billions or trillions of stars and planets like our own in existence ,
but can you imagine what would happen if you could visit just one of them
at near light-speed?

In the 100th anniversary year of Albert Einstein's published theory of
special relativity , the physics of reaching even the closest of star
systems remain daunting, says Dr. Pournelle. and unless he is helped, neither will man," adding, "This
ship and her sisters in the stars and on the passage are, without the
slightest help from Earth, the only means which shall cause man to survive
as a race and triumph everywhere.

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PRESS RELEASE 100 Years Later Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity Still Fascinates Perplexes Theoretical Space Travelers

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"Popular science fiction fare basically leaps over the issue of aging while
heroes and villains travel to and from solar systems ," says Dr.
"It would get very tricky if special relativity was addressed. Ron
Hubbard. Pournelle .

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One science fiction writer who tackled the subject head on was L.

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Jerry Pournelle (best-selling author and
Science Editor of Byte magazine )."

"When you finished a round trip, you would have hardly aged compared to the
folks you left on Earth," says Dr..nasa.

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"I'm not sure we'll have an answer to this in the next 100 years , but we'll
continue to speculate and make scientific advances in space exploration,"
says Dr.

It also supports research aimed
toward understanding the geochemical nature of the solar system's bodies, such
as planets, Earth's moon, satellites of the outer planets, and small bodies .