‘Beam me up, general!’
Could ‘Star Trek’ technology help transport troops?
By Tom Costello
Correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:31 p.m. ET Feb. 9, 2005
To anyone who’s ever watched “Star Trek,” teleportation is as basic as warp drives and dilithium crystals. But could science fiction become science fact? Is it possible to beam tanks and troops across the globe or behind enemy lines?
To find out, the propulsion research lab at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio — the same cutting-edge lab that helped bring stealth technology and lasers to the Air Force — commissioned a study.




