No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.

The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.