Generation ships offer a tantalizing possibility: transporting humans on a permanent voyage to a new home among the stars.
This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is adapted from Christopher Mason’s book “The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.' 'The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.'Robert Goddard Until 1992, when the first exoplanets were discovered, there had never been direct evidence of a planet found outside our solar system.
Artificial gravity—essentially building a spacecraft that spins to replicate the effects of Earth’s gravity—would address many of these issues, though not all. Another major challenge would be radiation.
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