Alpha Centauri as the closest star system, located at a distance of over four light years from Earth, is the subject of intense interest from scientists.
It is natural that this system will be the first star system you visit is built by people the space research unit. This is what is in the plans of the management of the Laboratory of NASA for the study of jet propulsion (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL), and, according to these preliminary plans, the launch of the spacecraft can be made in 2069 year by the time the 100-th anniversary of the Apollo II mission.
This project, JPL has not yet received an official name and, according to available information, is at an early stage of its implementation. And technologies that can ensure the flight of a spacecraft to alpha Centauri, does not exist in reality, they only need to be developed by the next generation of scientists and engineers. All this is still only a dream, the realization of which will require huge investments and big efforts.
Some details of this project, said Anthony Freeman (Anthony Freeman) in his speech at the conference of the American Geophysical society (American Geophysical Union), held in New Orleans. The main goal for exoplanet research will be the Proxima b, which will be produced by the search for existing or existing life there.
Soon NASA and the involved subcontractors will begin research and development of new technologies that allow spacecraft to reach speeds one tenth the speed of light. Spacecraft moving with the same speed it will take 44 years to reach the area the star system alpha Centauri.
Given the timing of the programme and such a long flight time, anyone who reads these lines now, not happen to learn that will detect the spacecraft at alpha Centauri. In case of successful implementation of this mission, the first news of this system can be obtained no earlier than 2100, and people who receive this news, will be our children and our grandchildren.
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