We Have Sent Several Spacecraft on Trajectories That Will Ultimately

question 48

Multiple Choice

We have sent several spacecraft on trajectories that will ultimately take them into interstellar space (Pioneer 10 and 11, Voyager 1 and 2, New Horizons) . How long will it take these spacecraft to travel as far as the nearest stars?

• A)a few hundred years
• B)tens of thousands of years
• C)never, because they will rust and fall apart
• D)about a thousand years
• E)a few decades

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