Starship?
C’mon...We may go to the stars one day, but it won’t be with rocket ships.
Thus the need for anti-gravity drives.
It will be a civilian that does finally invent one..............
We may go to the stars one day, but it won’t be with rocket ships.
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You mean using only chemical rockets, right?
Back in 1963, there were plans to build an interstellar ship with a crew of 2,000 to go to A. Centauri in a few years using nuclear bomblet propulsion: Project Orion (the original one). Killed by lack of political will.