Do you ever wake up too early to get up, but too late to go back to sleep, and end up reading Wikipedia? That happened to me today, and I found this.
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"NASA announced in 2017 that it plans to send a spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in 2069, scheduled to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing in 1969, Apollo 11. Even at speed 10% of the speed of light (67 million mph), which NASA experts say may be possible, it would take a spacecraft 44 years to reach the constellation, by the year 2113, and will take another 4 years for a signal, by the year 2117 to reach Earth.[138]"](https://adamisacson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/3430509C-2085-4FCF-A7A5-41B56F638B23_1_201_a.jpeg)
Maybe my grandchildren, if they exist and live that long, will see up-close images of another solar system.