Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20140606211304/@comment-4621372-20140902225941

Can, honestly, if the Space Race continued, we would have a lot of better options for space travel. Honestly, with Nuclear Pulse Propulsion, it would only take a few hours to get between Earth and, say, Mars, where it currently would take months. That may sound fast, but light can do it in just a few minutes. NPP is also our best bet for getting between stars; you can accelerate to .99c pretty quickly. From there, it would seem like just minutes between here and the nearest stars, though someone on Earth would still call it 4 years.