Stephen Hawking helps unveil interstellar travel project
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Channel: africanews · 2016 · News & Politics
A Russian billionaire has enlisted physicist Stephen Hawking to help him launch a futuristic plan for seeking life in outer space. Called the Breakthrough Starshot mission, it envisages a mother ship launching thousands of minute spacecraft into space which will then use lazers from Earth to travel at 20% the speed of light to the nearest star system. Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking see it as an achievable challenge. “With light beams, light sails and the lightest spacecraft ever built we ca… READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2016/04/13/stephen-hawking-helps-unveil-interstellar-travel-project Africanews is a new pan-African media pioneering multilingual and independent news telling expertise in Sub-Saharan Africa. Subscribe on ourYoutube channel : https://www.youtube.com/c/africanews Africanews is available in English and French. Website : www.africanews.com Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews
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