NASA Teleconference About The Starshot Intersellar Mission

Last month The Breakthrough Foundation announced its plans for humanity’s first interstellar mission, Project Starshot. While much has ben written about that announcement, only the basic details behind the technology have been released. Until now.
On Wednesday, 11 May 2016 you can listen to a NASA teleconference presentation by Starshot’s main architect Philip Lubin from UC Santa Barbara. His presentation “Prospects for Relativistic Flight Using Directed Energy” begins at 3 pm EDT.

Information on how to dial in by telephone and participate – and background materials – is available here.