Interstellar space travel. Fantasy of every five-year-old ... we have interstellar space probes currently in operation. Except the problem is that they're going nowhere really fast.

Gallery: Visions of interstellar starship travel The inconvenient length of ... crewmembers should be made aware of the potential problem and receive extensive linguistic training before launch ...

“With today’s technology, even a small probe would have to travel nearly 100,000 years to reach its destination,” René Heller ... “This finding prompted us to think about the possibility of stopping a ...

“[Voyager 1] has been blazing through space at 38,000 miles per hour, and after 30 years of travel ... interstellar voyage, that they wanted to change course? Mission planners may foresee this ...

But interestingly, Romanovskaya proposes that interstellar travel might be happening via ... encounter serious or insurmountable technical problems when using spacecraft to transport large ...

But there are technological problems that do need to be overcome ... in large enough quantities that it could be useful for interstellar travel. Excitingly enough, the first two challenges are ...

Randall Parker and most other people make several mistaken assumptions when they analyze interstellar travel. They implicitly assume that humanity is sending a manned mission with very little changes ...

It is a dangerous delusion to think that space offers an escape from Earth’s problems ... the future and spreading far beyond Earth. Interstellar travel is inherently of long duration, and ...