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  1. In space travel, a futuristic project
  2. proposed by the British Interplanetary
  3. Society to send a robot probe to nearby
  4. stars. The probe, 20 times the size of the
  5. Saturn V moon rocket, would be propelled by
  6. thermonuclear fusion; in effect, a series of
  7. small hydrogen-bomb explosions. Interstellar
  8. cruise speed would be about 40,000 km/25,000
  9. mi per second.
  10.