Dr. Mae Jemison was the first black woman in space. Now, she’s
leading a wildly ambitious project: to achieve interstellar
travel in the next 100 years. She’s with us. Think Star Trek and
you won’t be far off. A new Pentagon project is putting out seed
money for interstellar travel. Humans, rambling around among the
stars. It’s called the 100 Year Starship project. It’s as wildly
ambitious as just about anything you can imagine. The spaceship,
its energy source, its passengers’ survival – full-blown or just
as DNA… all giant challenges. Not to mention that we’re sort of
broke and not even flying space shuttles right now. Leader of
the new effort: astronaut Mae Jemison, the first black woman in
space. She’s with us. This hour, On Point: the 100 Year
Starship.