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Would you be willing to leave Earth on a one-way trip to our nearest star system? In a Live Science poll, we asked our readers whether they would board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri. The poll was in response to a hypothetical spacecraft called Chrysalis, which won first place in a contest to design a …

Four centuries from launch, a vast spacecraft could deliver thousands of people to a world orbiting the nearest star. The concept, called Chrysalis, is designed for one purpose — to take humanity to Proxima b, a rocky planet in the Proxima Centauri system that may be able to support life. Its creators picture a self-sufficient habitat where generations would live, …