UNIVERSE
MARS EXPLORATION
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70, 000 years
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10, 000 years
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700 years
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75, 000 years
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100 years
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Detailed explanation-1: -Using Voyager 1 technology, it would take us 80, 000 years to travel to Proxima Centauri.
Detailed explanation-2: -In short, at a maximum velocity of 56, 000 km/h, Deep Space 1 would take over 81, 000 years to traverse the 4.24 light-years between Earth and Proxima Centauri. To put that time-scale into perspective, that would be over 2, 700 human generations.
Detailed explanation-3: -Alpha Centauri is the nearest star and planetary system to Earth – it is 4.37 light-years away, but it would take a human about 6, 000 years to get there with current technology.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gradually accelerating up to 12% the speed of light, or 80, 473, 995 miles/hr, a craft could travel to Proxima Centauri in 36 years. Robert W. Bussard introduced the idea of a ramjet spacecraft in 1960.