The Future of Interstellar Spacecraft

In science fiction, spacecrafts explore every inch of our universe. Starships travel at warp speed across the Milky Way. Massive space stations drift through the cosmos, harboring ships and spaceplanes from strange planets, orbiting different suns. Science fiction paints a pretty picture of interstellar transportation, but will humans ever explore the universe beyond our solar system?

Sources:

Here is the Future of Interstellar Spacecraft
https://futurism.com/here-future-interstellar-spacecraft

Project Icarus
www.icarusinterstellar.org/projects/project-icarus

LightSail 2 Mission Control
https://secure.planetary.org/site/SPageNavigator/mission_control.html

New and Improved Antimatter Spaceship for Mars Missions
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/home/antimatter_spaceship.html

Mission Overview
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/

Spacecraft: Overview
http://interstellarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Spacecraft/

New Horizons: The First Mission to the Pluto System and the Kuiper Belt
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/overview/index.html

Breakthrough Starshot
https://breakthroughinitiatives.org/initiative/3

The Skylon Spaceplane
https://www.colorado.edu/faculty/kantha/sites/default/files/attached-files/70494-96876_-_kyle_borg_-_may_8_2015_853_am_-_borg_matula_skylon_report.pdf

Spaceplanes: The Return of the Reusable Spacecraft
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210121-spaceplanes-the-return-of-the-reuseable-spacecraft

Scientists Just Killed the EmDrive
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a35991457/emdrive-thruster-fails-tests/

Chief Editor:Tristan Reed
Science Editors:
Dr. Bassem Sabra (PhD)
Dr. Caroline Palmer-Puschendorf (PhD)
Dr. Sean McKenna (PhD)
Sound Production:Joseph McDade