ALPHA CENTAURI or BUST. (cover story)

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  • Author(s): NADIS, STEVE
  • Source:
    Discover. Nov2016, Vol. 37 Issue 9, p32-37. 6p. 8 Color Photographs, 1 Diagram.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      MILNER, Yuri; SPACE vehicles; HAWKING, Stephen, 1942-2018; JEMISON, Mae, 1956-; ALPHA Centauri
    • Abstract:
      The article reports on a press conference by philanthropist and high-technology entrepreneur Yuri Milner where he announced Breakthrough Starshot, a program to launch a fleet of spacecraft that would within another 20 years reach the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, 4.37 light-years away. Others at the press conference included cosmologist Stephen Hawking, former astronaut Mae Jemison, Harvard University astrophysicist Avi Loeb and former head of the NASA Ames Research Center Pete Worden.