SETI public: Article on interstellar travel in August, 2003 Discover magazine

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    DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 8 (August 2003)
    Table of Contents
    starTREK
    NASA thinks we can find another Earth in another nearby star. When we do, how can we possibly travel light-years to get there?
    It might not be as hard as you'd think . . .
    By William Speed Weed
    In just the last eight years, astronomers have discovered a bewildering variety of worlds around other stars: planets so hot they vaporize like comets, planets so large they nearly shine like stars, twin planets that orbit their star in lockstep rhythm. What we have not found is a planet remotely like our own—our instruments aren't sensitive enough. That should change soon. About 10 years from now, NASA plans to launch a mission called Terrestrial Planet Finder, a space telescope specifically designed to detect another Earth. The odds are good that a survey of 150 or so nearby stars will reveal at least one small, Earth-like planet.

    http://www.discover.com/aug_03/gthere.html?article=feattrek.html

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