With Divya Shankar. From 1987 to 1989, seven First Class Midshipmen at the US Naval Academy embarked upon a study to design an interstellar spacecraft aimed our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. This project represented the United States Naval Academy’s participation in the NASA/USRA University Advanced Design Program. The seven Midshipmen- Keith Beals, Martin Beaulieu, Frank [...]

Following on from Kelvin’s post, here’s my steampunk image: Now that’s an interstellar communications engineer! Thanks to Richard Obousy for arranging this, and J.R. Fleming for the artwork.