Results of the first US manned orbital space fligh, NASA, Feb 20, 1962.
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Physicist Stephen Hawking and philanthropist Yuri Milner convened at One World Observatory in New York City today to announce a new spacecraft that promises to reach our neighboring star, Alpha Centauri, 20 years after its launch.
The project, called Breakthrough Starshot, will utilize an extremely thin and lightweight material called a LightSail to propel it through space. Instead of wind, the sail will catch light as its source of “fuel.” An array of lasers on Earth will concentrate a beam toward the sail, launched in space from a mothership, to send it on its way.
According to Milner, the craft could theoretically reach about 20 percent of lightspeed, or about 100 million miles per hour. The sail will carry a tiny “StarChip” jam-packed with sensors, cameras, and other technology to search for life along the way.
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