100 Year Starship

Notes, papers, presentations, and other information by Karen and Chris Radcliff related to the 100 Year Starship (100YSS) project.

2012 – Generation Zero

For the 2012 100YSS Symposium, as part of the Interstellar Civilization track, we presented a paper about Generation Zero, our name for the intrepid starship-minded space explorers that we should be fostering over the next century.

(You can download all materials from the 2012 paper (8.2 MB), or find individual parts below.)

Generation Zero: Fostering a culture of spacefarers
paper by Karen Radcliff, M.A. and Chris Radcliff
(13 pages, 136 KB in PDF format)

Chris presented the paper at the 100YSS Symposium in Houston in September 2012:

A slide from the Generation Zero presentation by Chris Radcliff at 100YSS 2013.

A slide from the Generation Zero presentation by Chris Radcliff at 100YSS 2013.

Slides are available in Powerpoint format (3.6 MB), PDF format with notes or without notes (2.5 MB each), or as a PDF script (60KB).