NASA programme managed from the Lewis, later Glenn, Research Center by Marc Millis from 1996, funding small-scale theoretical and experimental work on propulsion concepts that would not require propellant, including assessments of Eugene Podkletnov’s gravity-shielding claim. The programme was deliberately modest, publicly documented and peer-reviewed, and was wound down in the early 2000s.
In The Hunt for Zero Point it functions alongside Project Greenglow, a NATO gyroscope study and a United States Air Force study as evidence that mainstream institutions were funding this territory openly while the word antigravity remained unusable. It is also the clearest available counter-argument to the book’s thesis: if the effect were already in hand somewhere in the black world, the open programmes would be an expensive redundancy.
PURSUE Release 06 record DOW-UAP-D144, Cockpits in the Era of Breakthrough Flight (2010), one of the DIRDs, designs a provisional cockpit for craft propelled by unspecified breakthrough propulsion physics while calling it probably premature to research such cockpits at all; another paper in the release says fusion will not be practical beyond the solar system without breakthrough propulsion physics (Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion).
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Project Greenglow · Eugene Podkletnov · The Hunt for Zero Point · Ning Li · AGARD Gyroscope Study 1990 · DIRDs · Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion