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100 people needed to start trip to another star

With a minimum 630 years of traveling, 98 crew members will be needed to sustain a these ships

15-Jun-2018

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Would take 630 years to reach Proxima Centauri b.

Need a minimum of 98 crew members would be needed to sustain a multi-generational voyage.

Factors include fertility rates, birth rates, and reproduction window.

Allows for accidents and catastrophic events, and prevents inbreeding.

The study was published in the Journal of the British Interplanetary Society.

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Camille (Beluffi) Marin

Data Scientist and Project leader at CASC4DE

Frederic Marin

Astrophysicist from the Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg

Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS)

Scientific journal providin information on all aspects of astronautics.

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Space Colonization