Did you know that humanity has never launched a spacecraft to another star? That is about to change! We have created a non-profit to attempt to send humanity’s 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿… and we need your help! We have formed non-profit The @FermiExplorer Mission with the goal of launching a minimum viable spacecraft to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system, leaving in 3 years and arriving in around 80,000 years. We hope it will be both the first spacecraft to leave Earth for another star, and the last to arrive, as per this concept video! The mission is intended to make the idea of interstellar travel real, and to encourage more people to confront one of humanity’s biggest unanswered questions when we look beyond our planet: "Where is everybody?" (the Fermi Paradox) The mission has four high-level objectives: - Aim: To launch the first spacecraft to another star. It should get at least 99% of the way to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within 80,000 years. - Payload: It should have at least a 1kg, 10x10x10 cm payload. - Schedule: It should launch before the end of 2029 - Cost: It should cost less than $15M to design, build, launch, and operate. The mission was planned with the help of the folks at @astrodigitalgeo, @MattGialich and the folks at @AstroForge, and @alexwg+@matthew_pines physical AI lab PSI, who devised the final mission profile. The mission will be executed by full-time program manager @GarrettJameson, who joins us after 10 years as a US Air Force Officer, in collaboration with a US bus manufacturing partner that will be selected over the coming months. We will need your help to complete the mission, so if the idea of the mission excites you, please check out the Fermi Explorer website in the comments to find out more about why we are doing the mission and how to get involved! Thanks to London Studio @ZeroOneCreative and @ashkan01C for producing the concept video 🙏🙏

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Among the first 100 donors 🚀⭐ LFG to another star! @FermiExplorer @PhilipJohnston

Encyclopedia Cosmologica is an interactive artwork I’m building with @bot . It'll launch to Alpha Centauri with @FermiExplorer in 2029, contains 5000+ piece of scifi art about advance civilization. Inspired by Jon Lomberg and Carl Sagan Thanks @PhilipJohnston

Come with me if you want civilization to live. We must accelerate our ascension to the stars, rather than fight for our place in the dirt. e/acc

Very cool!

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Cool indeed @RuiHuang_art! Excited to carry this to Alpha Centauri on board the @FermiExplorer!

Thanks @IEEEorg!

Earlier @elonmusk mentioned the first @Starcloud_ mission at the @WhiteHouse 🙏😃🚀

Kam needs way more followers here on X, given how many space companies he's launched. @xenergynuclear @Int_Machines @Axiom_Space @weareibx @QuantumSpace_US @FermiExplorer "Prosperity doesn't just happen. It is built. We must imagine it, believe it is possible, and execute on the infrastructure needed to make it real."

The humanity’s first spacecraft to another star, It should get at least 99% of the way to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, within 80.000 years. Where is everybody? Fermi’s Paradox. What do more advanced intelligent life forms feel about such a reckless sense of adventure.

Humanity's first spacecraft to another star is on the way. 🚀 @FermiExplorer aims to launch within 3 years and reach Alpha Centauri in about 80,000 years. Co-founder and Program Manager @GarrettJameson joins our free webinar on 13 Oct. 👇

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Thanks NASA Administrator Isaacman @rookisaacman for being one of the biggest supporters of orbital data centers… and interstellar missions! 😲😃🚀 @Starcloud_, @FermiExplorer

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I love my job 🤓😁 @NASA

Where are the aliens? We should try to find them!

No intergalactic outreach till series B

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