Onward and Outward
by Paul Miller
The space debate continues in the New York Times with Thomas Mallon calling for more ambition:
"One can hardly think bigger than they do in this program, the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project, which admits that star exploration will never be accomplished without moving entirely beyond the physics of rocket propulsion. With its musings on worm holes and warp drives - potential ways and means to the stars - the program is a small brainstorm within the vast regimentation of NASA, a sort of bloop in the bureaucratic water cooler."
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