Will we reach for the stars?

Replay of the conference held on January 28, 2025 at the José Cabanis multimedia library, Toulouse

By Roland Lehoucq, astrophysicist at CEA Saclay

Space travel is a favorite theme in science fiction. Some films, like Star Wars or Star Trek, feature fabulous spaceships that take you from planet to planet like a bus. Others, like Avatar, show more plausible spaceships. They all make us dream, even if we know that interstellar travel is a long way off. So what’s basically stopping us from traveling to the stars?



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