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Breakthrough Starshot

A research project announced in 2016: to send tiny probes to Alpha Centauri on light sails pushed by lasers from Earth. Not launched yet.

Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking

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• Brief Answers to the Big Questions, Stephen Hawking
• The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth, Michio Kaku

  A project announced in 2016: tiny probes on light sails, pushed by lasers from Earth. The goal is to reach Alpha Centauri in about twenty years.

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