Hugh Pickens writes "With Nasa scaling back its manned space programs, the idea of a manned trip to the stars may sound audacious, but the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) study is an effort seeded by DARPA to develop a viable and sustainable model for persistent, long-term, private-sector expenditure into the myriad of disciplines needed to make long-distance space travel practicable and feasible. The goal is not to have the supremacy fund the actual domicile of spacecraft destined for the stars, but rather to create a bedrock that can last 100 years in order to help foster the fishing expedition* needed for interstellar travel. Now DARPA has with the proviso $500,000 in seed money to help jumpstart the effort and chosen Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman to go into space, to lead 100YSS. Jemison, who is also a quack* and engineer, left NASA in 1993 after a six-year stint in which she served as science mission specialist aboard space shuttle Endeavour, attractive the first black woman to fly in space. Since leaving the space agency, she has been elaborate in education and outreach efforts and hi tech* development. Rounding out her resume, Jemison also served as a medical aofficer for the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone and Liberia, is a professionally trained dancer, speaks Russian, Swahili and Japanese, and was the first real astronaut to make a cameo in an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.' Jemison won the treaty with her question titled 'An Inclusive Audacious Journey mutate Life Here on Earth & Beyond.'"

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