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Two failures in as many attempts. This fiasco should be a wake up call to NASA and SpaceX that they need to rethink their tall, skinny Starship based lunar lander. Firefly Aerospace got it right the first time with their short, squat Blue Ghost lander. In their webcasts they even talked...

Yeah, NGC 6624 is listed as being around 28000 light years away from Earth

A very interesting subject and discussion. If you want to read a very recent fictional take on a generational starship see Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land. This novel features a generation starship called the Argos which is flying its crew of humans to a nearby star at 10% of the speed of...