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Science 7 August 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5378, pp. 765 - 766
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5378.765
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News of the Week

SPACE:
Engineers Dream of Practical Star Flight

James Glanz

At a workshop last week on Robotic Interstellar Exploration in the Next Century, held at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and sponsored by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, engineers engaged in some uninhibited thinking about practical--or, at least, plausible--ways to propel, control, and communicate with an interstellar probe. Although the first interstellar probes would probably aim for nearby interstellar space, the ultimate goal would be to reach other planets within, say, 40 light-years of Earth.

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