There are no plans to go faster than chemical rockets at the moment. There is this something called Project Starshot,. These micro satellites, they're the size of a postage stamp. They would beam signals back to us at the speed of light that takes four years. We could actually have an entire mission that unfolds over a 24 year period.
What if the solar system had two suns? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice give a sneak peek into our patron-only Q&As with questions about the three body problem, galaxy formation, the alpha centauri system, and more.
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