Marc Millis
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Marc G. Millis is an American propulsion engineer who managed NASA's Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project from 1996 to 2002, a small program to study speculative ideas such as "space drives" and faster-than-light travel. He later co-founded the Tau Zero Foundation.[1][2]
NASA
Millis worked as an engineer at NASA. In 1997 he set out the "challenge to create the space drive", and from 1996 he led the Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project, which spent about $1.2 million over six years funding small studies of propulsion ideas that would need new physics. He summarised its findings on 14 topics, judging six non-viable, four worth further research and four unresolved.[1][3]
After the project
When NASA cancelled the project in 2002, Millis and others, including writer Paul Gilster, founded the Tau Zero Foundation to support research on interstellar flight. NASA supported him in documenting the project's results, published by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 2009 as Frontiers of Propulsion Science.[1]
Views
In his papers Millis argued for an "incremental and affordable" approach to breakthrough propulsion, testing speculative claims through small, focused experiments.[1][2][3]
On the UAP Timeline
- NASA Breakthrough Propulsion Physics workshop (1997) (August 1997) — NASA holds a breakthrough propulsion physics workshop.
References
- Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Program — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Marc G. Millis, "Assessing Potential Propulsion Breakthroughs", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences (2005), NASA · ntrs.nasa.gov · archived copy
- Marc G. Millis, "Challenge to Create the Space Drive" (1997), NASA · ntrs.nasa.gov · archived copy
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