![]() All aspects of human life - birth death physical, emotional, and educational needs and government and law must be met by the structure, systems, and institutions on-board. ![]() As the population expands from the initial 100 people to approximately 300, the terraformed asteroid, enclosed by a man-made shell will allow for expansion over its surface in the fashion of a small terrestrial town. Antimatter isn't new for physics its existence was first confirmed in 1932 by Carl Anderson, who discovered positrons, electrons that exhibit a positive charge instead of a negative one. The spacecraft must be a combination of sublight speed transportation system and a traveling microplanet serving an expanding population. The challenges encountered by manned interstellar travel are formidable. If perfected, however, such 'antimatter-catalyzed' fusion propulsion systems would make possible round trips to Mars and Jupiter in the range of 1.5 and 3. Compared to chemically powered rockets like the Apollo mission class which would take 50,000 years to reach the Centauri system, antimatter propulsion would reduce one way trip time to 30 years or less. These would still require considerable development of propulsion technology, industrial standard antimatter production, and reliably safe antimatter containment and direction techniques. The photograph shows a NERVA rocket test setup, while the drawing shows rocket modified for antimatter propulsion 70 would be much smaller and less massive. The Centauri project: Manned interstellar travel The development of antimatter engines for spacecraft propulsion will allow man to expand to the nearest stellar neighbors such as the Alpha Centuri system.
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