Sorry ‘Prometheus’ fans: No interstellar travel for five more centuries

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In Ridley Scott’s new movie “Prometheus,” a group of humans travel to another star on a trillion-dollar spaceship. The year is 2093. And that got me wondering: Could humans really travel to another solar system that soon? Probably not. A fascinating recent research paper by Marc G. Millis, a former NASA expert on breakthrough propulsion,… Read more »