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Project Longshot was a conceptual interstellar spacecraft design. It would have been an uncrewed starship, intended to fly to and enter orbit around Alpha Centauri B powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Wikipedia →
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- 📕Project Longshot · 2018
- 📕Project Longshot · 1989
- 📕Project Longshot · 2018
- 📕Project Longshot · 1989
- 📕Project Longshot · 2018
- 📕Project Longshot : an Unmanned Probe to Alpha CentauriUnited States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., NASA · 2022
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