'100 Year Starship' Announces 2012 Public Symposium

'100 Year Starship' Announces 2012 Public Symposium: Global Platform For Public, Private Efforts To Enable Interstellar Travel By 2112 The first major event from 100 Year Starship (100YSS) will take place September 13-16, 2012 at the Hyatt Regency in Houston, TX. A DARPA-seed funded initiative building an inclusive, global aspiration for interstellar space travel, the 100YSS 2012 Public Symposium will bring together influential thought, scientific and cultural leaders to explore the technologies, science, social structures and strategies needed to make capabilities for human travel to another star system a reality within the next century.