A spacecraft named Chrysalis could one day carry 2,400 people to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. This ...

Take a tour of Chrysalis, a massive, cylindrical spacecraft designed for the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

Before departure, the first inhabitants would train in Antarctica for decades to adapt to isolation. The 58-kilometre-long vessel would rotate to maintain gravity.

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

Engineers have unveiled plans for Chrysalis, a massive 36-mile spacecraft designed to transport up to 2,400 passengers on a journey to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to our own.The ...

A team of engineers has unveiled an ambitious design for a massive 58 km long spacecraft named Chrysalis, capable of carrying ...

Engineers have designed a 36-mile spacecraft, Chrysalis, capable of carrying 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri. The design recently won the Project Hyperion Design Competition.

A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile-long spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to take up to 2,400 ...

The spacecraft would be 36 miles long and contain the necessities for this space travel, all of which would be supported by ...

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The sci-fi-like project won the top prize in the Project Hyperion Design Competition, a contest for designing hypothetical ...

Have you ever heard of Alpha Centauri? It's the star system closest to our own, and engineers now think they could make a ...