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tyho
on July 14, 2015
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New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto
I am not an engineer, but it might be easier to launch a spacecraft with an ion engine that over years manages to reduce the speed relative to Pluto to something human scale.
tim333
on July 14, 2015
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I think that would be the most practical way. Nasa already launched Dawn, an ion drive probe, to visit Vesta and Ceres.
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