Hawking, Milner want to send thousands of tiny spacecraft to Alpha Centauri

Tuesday, April 12, 2016 - 13:00 in Astronomy & Space

Billionaire internet investor Yuri Milner announced another $100 million US initiative on Tuesday to better understand the cosmos, this time by deploying thousands of tiny spacecraft to travel to our nearest neighboring star system and send back pictures.

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