How to fly through space

Interplanetary spacecraft
Ion thruster spacecraft. Image from NASA.

To get anywhere in the solar system takes a long time and is not easy. The Mars rovers took years to get there and were built to be very light because heavier spacecraft are harder to lift into orbit and take more energy to get them where they’re going (and to slow the down when they get there). Getting humans to other planets, or even another solar system, is an even greater challenge. New Scientist magazine has a nice little article on different types of deep-space spacecraft that might work.

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