Solar Sail First Stage and Then Impact Fusion to Get Towards Lightspeed
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#66DV3)
The Bussard Ramjet drive has been proven not to work, but laying out a runway of fuel could work. This has been examined in more detail. Fuel is deliberately emplaced in the path of the spacecraft before the flight. Kare proposed that, at the velocities proposed for interstellar flight, nuclear fusion can be accomplished at ...