{"id":140452,"date":"2022-06-12T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/spacex-affiliated-group-giving-out-funding-for-warp-drive-research"},"modified":"2022-06-12T10:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:18:06","slug":"spacex-affiliated-group-giving-out-funding-for-warp-drive-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/spacex-affiliated-group-giving-out-funding-for-warp-drive-research","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX-Affiliated Group Giving Out Funding for Warp Drive Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-affiliated-group-giving-out-funding-for-warp-drive-research2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Covering interstellar distances rapidly may still be a distant dream, but it\u2019s now getting unprecedented financial support.<\/p>\n<p>A nonprofit called the Limitless Space Institute, co-founded by former NASA warp drive researcher Harold \u201cSonny\u201d White and retired astronaut Brian Kelly in 2020, is generating enough excitement \u2014 and funding \u2014 for the concept that it\u2019s started giving out educational and research grants to schools and universities, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universetoday.com\/155995\/the-dream-of-faster-than-light-ftl-travel-dr-harold-sonny-white-and-limitless-space\/\" class=\"\">detailed by <em>Universe Today<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Institute, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limitlessspace.org\/\" class=\"\">mission statement<\/a> is to \u201cinspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and support the research and development of enabling technologies,\u201d has even picked up some increasingly mainstream support. Take Gwynne Shotwell, the chief operations officer and second-in-command of SpaceX, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/limitless-space-institute_leadership-team-activity-6909151423440064512-13kc\/?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web\" class=\"\">joined<\/a> as an independent advisor in April, joining other bigshots in the aerospace sector including several retired astronauts involved with the venture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covering interstellar distances rapidly may still be a distant dream, but it\u2019s now getting unprecedented financial support. A nonprofit called the Limitless Space Institute, co-founded by former NASA warp drive researcher Harold \u201cSonny\u201d White and retired astronaut Brian Kelly in 2020, is generating enough excitement \u2014 and funding \u2014 for the concept that it\u2019s started [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,45,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-finance","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}