Top scientists are planning to design a spaceship that could carry 1,000 people onboard for a 250-year mission that will take them to the stars.
The hypothetical spacecraft, dubbed "Interstellar Generational Spaceship" will be used to carry out research works on the far-away planets of the universe.
The idea is to build such a ship where hundreds of scientists and engineers will live, carry out research, produce babies, and die on the journey while their offspring continue the research work.
Experts are now being called to design such an advanced spaceship that could travel for missions spanning generations of human life.
A new design competition, dubbed Project Hyperion, is calling for submissions for the design of the crewed interstellar generation ship
Instead of focusing on the aircraft's propulsion system, which may require technology that does not even exist yet, researchers are being asked to design the inside of a spacecraft ideal for such a journey.
Pie in the sky. Propulsion is everything. Human interstellar travel must be extremely rapid to ever be practical. They obviously haven't done their homework.
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