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Stephen Hawking and Billionaire Team Up on $100 Million Quest to Find Alien Life
Stephen Hawking and Russian billionaire Yuri Milner are teaming up in a $100 million hunt for alien life using a postage stamp-sized spacecraft.
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How to reach Alpha Centauri in just 20 years
New York (AFP) April 12, 2016 - Billionaire Russian investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth.
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Hawking backs interstellar travel project
Professor Stephen Hawking backs a project to send spaceships to another solar system within a generation
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China welcomes Stephen Hawking on Weibo with awe
Chinese Weibo users welcome Prof Stephen Hawking's entry into the microblogging network with warmth and admiration.
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Breakthrough Initiatives
The Breakthrough Initiatives are a set of space science programs exploring life beyond Earth, launched in 2015 by tech investor and science philanthropist Yuri Milner and cosmologist Stephen Hawking.
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