Ok I'm a closet Trekkie, but it's not illegal and I'm not hurting anyone 
Maybe finally we are starting to go the right direction as a physicist who is the head of NASA's Advanced Propulsion Team has been working on it and claims it's possible. Even better, they've got an artist to knock up some visuals, so it must be true!
credit to Mark Rademaker
Full story with on CNN website
So we might be between spaceships at the moment as the Shuttle sits in a museum, we lick our wounds over Beagle and we watch the Indians and Chinese start a retro space race.
But one day, warp factor 6, we'll be off....
