{"id":2590,"date":"2013-06-02T18:27:50","date_gmt":"2013-06-02T18:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2590"},"modified":"2013-06-04T02:18:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:18:35","slug":"icarus-interstellar-starship-congress-kickstarter-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2590","title":{"rendered":"Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress &#8211; Kickstarter support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Icarus Interstellar<\/a> is a &#8220;non-profit organization dedicated to achieving interstellar spaceflight by the end of the century&#8221;. They have organized a Kickstarter campaign to support a meeting this summer to discuss the gamut of issues related to deep space and interstellar spaceflight:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Imagine<\/b> collectively experiencing the progressive thoughts and unencumbered designs of <b>the world&#8217;s leading spacecraft designers<\/b>, engineers, and astro-theorists. Picture for a moment, attending a forum where\u00a0scientists, physicists, engineers, researchers, urban designers, representatives from international space programs and present-day commercial space operators, as well as popular and well-known interstellar speakers and space journalists <b>share their visions<\/b> for how the future of spaceflight and exploration may unfold.<\/p>\n<p>This is the vision behind the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/congress-announcement\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress<\/b><\/a>, to be held\u00a0<i>August 15-18, 2013<\/i>, in Dallas, Texas. The aim is to bring together the interstellar community to foster\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icarusinterstellar.org\/congress-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">discussion<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>surrounding the development of deep space exploration within the next several decades, and how we may move humanity toward becoming an interstellar civilization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/397175064\/icarus-interstellar-starship-congress-2013-confere\" target=\"_d\">Icarus Interstellar &#8211; Starship Congress 2013 Summit by Steve Summerford \u2014 Kickstarter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> June.3.13: I forgot to post their video:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/397175064\/icarus-interstellar-starship-congress-2013-confere\/widget\/video.html\" frameborder=\"0\"> <\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icarus Interstellar is a &#8220;non-profit organization dedicated to achieving interstellar spaceflight by the end of the century&#8221;. They have organized a Kickstarter campaign to support a meeting this summer to discuss the gamut of issues related to deep space and interstellar spaceflight: Imagine collectively experiencing the progressive thoughts and unencumbered designs of the world&#8217;s leading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2590\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress &#8211; Kickstarter support<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,37,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-events","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-FM","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3938,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3938","url_meta":{"origin":2590,"position":0},"title":"Icarus Interstellar Starship Congress, Dallas, TX, Aug. 15-18","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Icarus Interstellar is hosting the Starship Congress in Dallas, Texas this Thursday through Sunday: Starship Congress: Competing Our Way to the Stars : Discovery News. 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