To boldly go where no man has gone before - a century-long plan to send man to stars

To boldly go where no man has gone before

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Quote: Is a call for the private sector to lead a century-long plan to send humans not just to another planet but whole other star systems really likely to provoke the kind of fervour, and importantly investment, needed for such an ambitious target?

The idea behind the 100 Year Starship Study, launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), is that interstellar space travel would require such huge amounts of investment over a sustained period that even the mighty US government would be unable to afford it.
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