London. Weather. Daedalus Project. Rendered image of the Daedalus, courtesy of Adrian Mann In the winter of 1973, the men and women of the British Interplanetary Society convened in London to engage in some lively interstellar discourse.
The members' intent was to draw up a workable design for an extremely ambitious unmanned space probe, one capable of reaching a neighboring star system within fifty years. Moreover, they limited themselves to using only current and near-future technology, as this would allow the theories to be translated into practice one day if the concept proved feasible. In order to reach even the nearest stars within the allotted fifty-year window, the thirteen scientists and engineers of the research group had a formidable task ahead of them. Their space probe would be required to accelerate to astonishing speeds, and it would need to weather the constant battering of particles from the soup of space debris known as the Interstellar Medium. Cheap Flights, Hotels and Car Hire from Dial A Flight. UT Library Online - Perry-Castañeda. Streetmap.co.uk.