100 Year Starship symposium in Houston in September

The 100 year Starship organization is holding its 2014 Public Symposium in Houston, Texas over Sept. 18-21. Here’s the agenda:

The 100 Year Starship’s purpose:

We exist to make the capability of human travel beyond our solar system a reality within the next 100 years. We unreservedly dedicate ourselves to identifying and pushing the radical leaps in knowledge and technology needed to achieve interstellar flight, while pioneering and transforming breakthrough applications that enhance the quality of life for all on Earth. We actively seek to include the broadest swath of people and human experience in understanding, shaping and implementing this global aspiration.

Taking up this task ignites not only our imagination, but the undeniable human need to push ourselves to accomplishments greater than any single individual.