Avoiding the “Great Filter”: A Projected Timeframe for Human Expansion Off-World

A foundational model has been developed based on trends built from empirical data of space exploration and computing power through the first six plus decades of the Space Age, which projects the earliest possible launch dates for human-crewed missions from cis-lunar space to selected Solar System an...

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Main Authors: Jonathan H. Jiang, Philip E. Rosen, Kristen A. Fahy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-07-01
Series:Galaxies
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4434/9/3/53