![]() ![]() Pretty fast, huh?īut even if our crew and spaceship could routinely reach and keep at that speed, it would still take us roughly 6400 years to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri. At that speed, we could go from the Earth to the Moon in about half an hour. The fastest spacecraft NASA is currently actively planning is the Solar Probe Plus, designed to launch in 2018 and approach the sun, with a maximum speed of about 200 kilometers per second. The real universe (or even just our galaxy) is a big place. Why do we want Faster Than Light (FTL) Space Travel? But having now served his time as a professional physicist, he’s happily writing SF as a hobby. ![]() Unfortunately, the attempt to combine research and teaching with writing SF on the side turned out to be too tough. In what seemed like a natural progression from an early interest in both science fiction and physics, Jim passed through the gates of a PhD in Physics to a career in research and teaching physics, with occasional stops along the way to enjoy astrophysics and space travel. Please join the mailing list to be notified every time new content is posted. Each week, we tackle one of the scientific or technological concepts pervasive in sci-fi (space travel, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, etc.) with input from an expert. This article is part of the Science in Sci-fi, Fact in Fantasyblog series. ![]()
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