To Boldly Go to New Worlds, NASA Announces '100-Year Starship'
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Lee Speigel
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(Oct. 22) -- It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a NASA official says that "within a few years" scientists will unveil a prototype for a spaceship capable of taking earthlings to other worlds.
（10月22日） - 它聽來像科幻小說的東西，但一位美國航空航天局官員說：“在幾年內”科學家將推出一太空飛船的原型，能夠帶世俗人往其它天體。
Speaking at a Long Now Foundation conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Simon Worden, center director at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, said a project is under way called the "Hundred Year Starship."
週末在一龍舊金山現在長基金的會議上，在加利福尼亞州美國宇航局艾姆斯研究中心的中心主任西蒙沃登說，一個稱為“百年星船”的項目正在進行中。
As reported by news.com.au, the project is, so far, a joint venture between NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, and looks to utilize new ship propulsion modes.
據由news.com.au報導，迄今為止項目是一項美國航空航天局和國防高級研究計劃局(DARPA)之間的合資企業，並期待使用新船推進模式。
A NASA official has announced a proposed spaceship that could take earthlings to other worlds within a few years. Pictured, "Star Trek's" Starship Enterprise.一位NASA官員已宣布一架提議的飛船，幾年之內可帶世人往其它天體。 圖為“星空奇遇記”的星艦企業。
"Anybody that watches the ["Star Trek"] Enterprise, you know you don't see huge plumes of fire," Worden, a retired Air Force brigadier general, said at the conference.
“任何人看過[”星空奇遇“]企業，你知道你看不到巨大的火舌，”一位退休的空軍準將沃登在這次會議上說。
"Within a few years, we will see the first true prototype of a spaceship that will take us between worlds."
“短短數年之內，我們將看到第一個真正的飛船原型，將帶我們去天體之間。”
Worden added that NASA is "now really aimed at settling other worlds. Twenty years ago, you had to whisper that in dark bars and get fired."
So far, the starship project has received $1 million from DARPA and $100,000 from NASA. That's certainly not enough to make this enterprise (if you will) a reality, and Worden said he's hoping to entice some billionaires to help fund it.
It's not exactly warp drive. Worden explained that NASA was looking into the idea of using microwave power from a ground base to heat hydrogen propellants installed on an orbiting spaceship.
"You don't have to carry all the fuel. You use that energy from a laser or microwave power to heat a propellant. ... I think that's one way of getting off the world."
But before we spend billions and billions of hard-earned dollars, leaping out where no one has gone before, Worden suggests we first use long-distance robots to explore the planet Mars from its two moons.
"I think we'll be on the moons of Mars by 2030 or so," Worden said.
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