Web Site of the Week

Each week, we highlight a Web site that we think may be helpful in some way to teachers. The highlighted sites are not part of or connected with Science News for Kids, Science News, or Science Service. We are not responsible for their content.

Jan. 17, 2007

Interstellar Travel

If you're interested in a real—not virtual—journey to the stars, you can keep your dream alive by logging onto the NASA Web site on interstellar travel and advanced propulsion systems. You'll learn some of the enormous difficulties involved in taking such a trip, including the fact that our nearest neighboring star is 4.3 light-years away. At 55 miles per hour, the trip would take more than 50 million years! While the engineers on the television show Star Trek have designed a warp drive to solve that problem, NASA scientists are still working on it.

Go to: www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html

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