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TITLE AND SUBTITLE:
NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program

AUTHOR(S):
Marc G. Millis

REPORT DATE:
June 1998

FUNDING NUMBERS:
WU-953-74-40-00

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES):
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Lewis Research Center
Cleveland, Ohio 44135-3191

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER:
E-11231

SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES):
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Washington, DC 20546-0001

REPORT TYPE AND DATES COVERED:
Technical Memorandum

SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY REPORT NUMBER:
NASA TM-1998-208400

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES:
Prepared for the Second Symposium on Realistic Near-Term Advanced Scientific Space Missions cosponsored by the International Academy of Astronautics and Politecnico di Torino, Aosta, Italy, June 29-July 1, 1998. Responsible person, Marc G. Millis, organization code 5870, (216) 977-7535.

ABSTRACT:
In 1996, NASA established the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program to seek the ultimate breakthroughs in space transportation: propulsion that requires no propellant mass, propulsion that attains the maximum transit speeds physically possible, and breakthrough methods of energy production to power such devices. Topics of interest include experiments and theories regarding the coupling of gravity and electromagnetism, vacuum fluctuation energy, warp drives and wormholes, and superluminal quantum effects. Because these propulsion goals are presumably far from fruition, a special emphasis is to identify affordable, near-term, and credible research that could make measurable progress toward these propulsion goals. The methods of the program and the results of the 1997 workshop are presented. This Breakthrough Propulsion Physics program, managed by Lewis Research Center, is one part of a comprehensive, long range Advanced Space Transportation Plan managed by Marshall Space Flight Center.

SUBJECT TERMS:
Space propulsion; Physics; General relativity; Gravity; Special relativity; Quantum physics

NUMBER OF PAGES:
15

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