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36-mile-long starship planned for humanity’s first interstellar journey

36-mile-long starship planned for humanity’s first interstellar journey

A bold new step for humanity could be a journey not to the Moon or Mars, but to an entirely new star system. This is the Chrysalis Project, an award-winning design for a hypothetical starship that could carry up to 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri—our closest stellar neighbor.  The ultimate goal would be to reach and settle on the potentially …

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