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Daedalus project - Artist view

author: Don Dixon/Novapix

reference: e-son90-10003

Image Size 300 DPI: 22 * 30 cm

A crewed starship based on the British Interplanetary Society's 1970's Daedalus design fires its nuclear pulse engine in interstellar space. The engine, capable of producing 0.01 gravity acceleration, boosts the ship to 10 percent the speed of light after ten years of thrust.

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Keywords for this photo:

2012 - ASTRONOMY - BARNARD'S STAR - DAEDALUS - EXOPLANET - EXTRASOLAR PLANET - ILLUSTRATION - MANNED SPACEFLIGHT - NUCLEAR - PLANET - PROPULSION - SCIENCE FICTION - SPACE - SPACECRAFT - SPACESHIP - STAR -