The tremendous amount of time it takes to move through space has isolated humanity from the cosmos. But burning rocket fuel is not the only way to travel the stars, and new technologies could dramatically increase the speed of our spacecrafts. In Episode 2.3 of Anatomy of Next, it looks at a series of “strange” rockets: proposals for nuclear, antimatter, and ion thrust.
The tremendous amount of time it takes to move through space has isolated humanity from the cosmos. But burning rocket fuel is not the only way to travel the stars, and new technologies could dramatically increase the speed of our spacecrafts. In Episode 2.3 of Anatomy of Next, it looks at a series of “strange” rockets: proposals for nuclear, antimatter, and ion thrust.
