A personal perspective by Rob Swinney, Project Leader Project Icarus, Icarus Interstellar   Earlier this month Richard Osborne and I attended the ‘Future Cities 2: Other Worlds’ conference at the University of Greenwich in the School of Architecture, Design and Construction.  It’s quite hard to put in words how far out of my normal experience [...]

“What a beautiful tree lined street.” Not quite the sentiment typically associated with the pondering of interstellar travel or the early colonization of a neighboring planet. Yet despite the seemingly incongruent nature of such a thought, further examination may prove it to be quite relevant. More specifically, it is important to understand the underlying pretext [...]