New NASA Propulsion System Could Send Humans to the Stars in a Fraction of the Time
The Voyager 1 space probe was launched some 45 years ago, back in 1977 and is now currently around 14.6 billion miles away. That means it officially entered interstellar space in 2012, taking it around 35 years. But now NASA says they have a theoretical propulsion system that could get a craft there in only 5 years.
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New NASA Propulsion System Could Send Humans to the Stars in a Fraction of the Time
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