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Project Icarus: Nuclear Fusion Space Propulsion - Icarus Interstellar

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The technical challenges to achieving interstellar flight are vast; power,energy, distance, speeds, assembly, fuel, cost,…..However, interstellar travel does appear to be feasible in principle, soin the future it should become reality. <strong>Fusion</strong> propulsion is onecandidate (there are others).What may make us launch earlier is a compelling reason to go;habitable exoplanet, life, imminent threat.Meanwhile, the dreamers play with their calculators and prepare forthat day.• “Creating a self-fulfilling Prophesy in space”

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