Marshall Barnes Among Authors Accepted By International Astronautical Congress For Paper

In the latest example of the significance of his research inside mainstream space science fields, Marshall Barnes, R&D Eng is a member of a team of researchers whose abstract for a paper has been accepted by the International Astronautical Congress.
 
 
Dr. Edythe Weeks, head of Interstellar 100 Year Starship Meet-up Group
Dr. Edythe Weeks, head of Interstellar 100 Year Starship Meet-up Group
June 13, 2014 - PRLog -- As a member of the Washington D.C. Interstellar Travel 100 Year Starship Meet-up Group, Marshall Barnes, internationally noted research and development engineer in the area of advanced concept science and technology, is part of a team of researchers whose abstract has been accepted by the International Astronautical Federation Congress for their upcoming conference in Toronto, Canada. The group effort, led by Dr. Edythe Weeks, is titled, Voyager 1, In the Zone: Who Says Interstellar Travel Is impossible?. Marshall's contribution will deal with his STDTS™ technology and the immediate plans to test it in space for future interstellar exploration.

The group's abstract reads:

In August, 2012 NASA announced that Voyager I had traveled outside our solar system, which NASA confirmed in subsequent months. Voyager I is thus the first man-made object which has traveled beyond the heliosphere, making it the first probe to go interstellar. If consistent milestones like this continue, our ability for human deep spaceflight is inevitably possible. From the first dugouts to the modern supertanker, humanity’s goal has always been to go farther, faster. The retirement of the NASA Space Shuttle is but an opportunity for mankind’s next step toward an interstellar spacecraft. Increasingly, researchers are providing credible suggestions which focus on a proposal for on interstellar travel. Naysayers often seem to forget the many decades of successful research and development, along with countless firsts and feats of accomplished through manned spaceflight. It is on the shoulders of those early pioneers upon which we stand. These lessons have led us to a burgeoning capability to produce advanced space transportation systems. Interstellar travel may become as real as iPads at our finger-tips and smart phones which can video chat anywhere in the world — something once only envisioned in science fiction. Results from the Swift, Chandra, WMAP, Hubble, Kepler and the VLA Space Telescopes, as well as many other scientific and technological discoveries, are making it possible to move forward to explore our universe in new ways. Space transportation and interplanetary telecommunications are key ingredients to advance humankind into a spacefaring generation.

The response to the abstract from the IAC read in part:

"Dear Prof. Weeks,

As Co-Chairs of the IAF International Programme Committee, we first would like to thank you for submitting an abstract for the 65th International Astronautical Congress. As in the past few years, the response to the Call for Papers has exceeded our expectations with over 3,000 submissions online. There were a large number of excellent abstracts to review making the selection quite difficult for the International Programme Committee during the annual IAF Spring Meetings, which took place last March in Paris.

Due to this very high number of abstracts and considering the interest of the subject you proposed, the Committee decided to promote your abstract, Voyager 1, In the Zone: Who Says Interstellar Travel Is impossible?, to a poster presentation. It will allow you a high visibility with the audience. Indeed, the Poster Area will occupy a large area at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. Posters will remain accessible to all Congress participants from Monday to Friday. In addition, A Poster Award Ceremony will be organized during the week, inviting all Congress participants to meet in the Poster Area. Finally, note that you could provide a full length paper corresponding to your poster to the IAF Secretariat and it will be included in the congress proceedings just as the oral presentation papers..."

Marshall was asked by Dr. Weeks to participate in the project. She first became aware of him when she saw his presentation at the 2013 International Space Development Conference (see second from the top, below Buzz Aldrin http://isdc.nss.org/2013/speakers-all.shtml) on his STDTS™ technology and was so impressed she agreed to make comments about it for his documentary, STDTS™: The World's First Warp Drive. Last January, she paid to have Marshall present his research on the Verdrehung Fan™ to her group. The response was very positive and she asked Marshall to join the organization in February. Marshall agreed  (see http://www.meetup.com/Interstellar-Travel-100-Year-Starsh... ).

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"I like the D.C. area and there are a few members of the Interstellar 100 Year Starship group that are truly exceptional. I think we're all excited that, by our joint effort, under Dr. Weeks' leadership and initiative, that we'll have this paper and poster be part of this august body's conference. It's really an honor."

All in all, it's just another victory for Marshall, as he projects his vision and his technological and intellectual reach across the world. With his new blogs, planned tests of his STDTS™ technology and Verdrehung Fan™, STEM efforts, TV specials and home video projects, by 2015, his impact on the world will be recognizable and be just the beginning of his planned disruption of the direction it is headed now. From space tourism, to advanced consumer technologies and the realization of the manipulation of space and time, Marshall Barnes is poised to capture the forgotten promise of the world of tomorrow, that childen of the '60s grew up with, and begin the long effort to facilitate its realization. You can learn more about him at his profile page, http://about.me/marshallbarnes and follow the adventure at http://pressroom.prlog.org/plan4fame and on twitter @warpdrivehere.

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