Project Icarus: Mechanisms of the Interstellar Machine

Project Icarus: Mechanisms of the Interstellar Machine : Discovery News: "Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into launching an unmanned spacecraft to an interstellar destination. Initiated by the British Interplanetary Society, and managed by Icarus Interstellar Inc., a non-profit group of scientists dedicated to interstellar spaceflight, Project Icarus is working to develop a spacecraft that can travel to a nearby star."