Nov 6, 2019
Jeff Greason Chairman of the Board A long-standing pet peeve of mine is the breathless popular science articles on the latest over-hyped electric rocket. VASIMIR is a common example. “This will allow us to get to Mars in a month!” (I sometimes think popular...
Sep 5, 2019
A Reaction Drive Powered by External Dynamic Pressure This article originally appeared in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS). JBIS Vol 72 No.5 May 2019 p. 146 – 152 Click here to download a PDF version JEFFREY K. GREASON, Electric Sky,...
Apr 29, 2017
Press release, April 29th, 2017 NASA Awards Grant to Tau Zero Foundation NASA has awarded a $500,000 grant to the Tau Zero Foundation for a 3-year study titled “Interstellar Propulsion Review.” Unlike prior studies, which were based on a specific mission...
Apr 26, 2017
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 10 May 2017 Call for Abstracts for the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop (TVIW) 2017, October 4-6, Huntsville, Alabama The TVIW conference, titled “Step By Step: Building a Ladder to the Stars,” will be held Oct. 4-6, 2017,...
Feb 23, 2017
Press release, February 22nd, 2017 Seven New Worlds confirmed, orbiting around TRAPPIST-1, 3 planets in the Goldilocks Zone. The Tau Zero Foundation congratulates NASA on today’s announcement of the discovery of four additional exoplanets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1,...
