The NASA mission aims to start exploration of the Oort Cloud.
The "Breakthrough" group wants to get a micro-probe to Proxima.

<https://www.npr.org/2021/10/26/1048358753/if-nasa-green-lights-this-interstellar-mission-it-could-last-100-years>

....

Knowing this day would come, a few years ago NASA officials asked
McNutt and his colleagues to come up with a plan for a new
interstellar mission, so that the legacy of the Voyagers didn't just end.

Their proposed probe relies on technology that's either tried-and-true
or already far along in development, with a price tag similar to the
recent Parker Solar Probe, which was recently sent hurtling toward the
sun at a cost of $1.5 bn.

While other groups have dreamed up interstellar missions in the past
or are working on them now, those efforts aren't ready for prime time
because they're either incredibly expensive or involve serious
engineering challenges, says Michael Paul, who serves as project
manager for the interstellar probe study team at the Johns Hopkins
University Applied Physics Laboratory.

For example, one group called Breakthrough Starshot has an admirable
vision of sending out many tiny probes that get pushed forward by
powerful lasers, says Paul, but "you and I are probably never going to
get to see them operate."

He and his co-workers, in contrast, were determined to devise a
pragmatic interstellar mission blueprint for NASA that "wasn't so pie
in the sky that it just ended up on people's shelves."

SEE ALSO: Mars Had Liquid Water On Its Surface. Here's Why Scientists
Think It Vanished Space

On its way out of the solar system, this proposed spacecraft could
swing by a dwarf planet, similar to the New Horizons mission that made
the first visit to Pluto in 2015. Kirby Runyon, also at the Johns
Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, notes that scientists
know little about dwarf planets, even though they are the most common
kind of planet in the solar system.

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--
"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

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On Fri, 25 Feb 2022 14:05:29 -0500, casagiannoni@optimum.net wrote:
>Speed x Time

Bernard Rich was born to Robert & Bessie Skolnik-Rich at the two-storey
brick house(73W56:45,40N36:28)1777 E 27th St, Brooklyn, New York Sunday
30 September 1917(AA/HR).