What Do Star Trek's Nacelles Do? A Quick Guide To The Important Starship Part

Ever wonder what the warp nacelles actually do in the Star Trek franchise? Here's an exploration of the starship part and how it works.
collider

NASA Designed a Warp Ship Inspired by Star Trek's Enterprise

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. When does science-fiction become science fact?
CNET

Mark Rademaker: Designing a warp drive space ship for NASA

For some years now, NASA's Harold White has been working on the possibility of a warp drive engine. This is the concept ship that might be powered by that engine. Michelle Starr Science editor ...
ExtremeTech

NASA unveils its futuristic warp drive starship - called Enterprise, of course

NASA scientist and Advanced Propulsion Team Lead Harold White has the kind of job thousands dream of and few achieve -- he's in charge of the space agency's efforts to determine if a faster-than-light ...
THE WEEK

This is what NASA's warp drive spaceship might look like

Nothing can travel through the space-time continuum faster than the speed of light. NASA engineer and physicist Harold White announced in 2012 that he was working on an idea that squeezes the ...
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NASA Has Designed a Futuristic Warp Drive Ship Right Out of 'Star Trek'

The news: According to Star Trek, the warp drive is an advanced engine that distorts the space and time and allows starships to travel faster than the speed of light. But while the engine didn't ...
SFGate

NASA designs Enterprise-inspired warp-speed ship

While some "Star Trek" technologies have come true or are within reach — the communicator and tricorder come to mind — others have remained firmly entrenched in the world of science fiction. Warp ...
Business Insider

Here's What NASA's 'Faster Than Light' Spaceship Could Look Like

Two years after announcing that he had begun research on a faster-than-light ship, a NASA scientist has revealed renderings of what the warp drive might actually look like (via io9). The resulting ...