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Will Parker Solar Probe survive its 24 loops around the sun while getting just a few million miles away from the surface of our star?

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What will be the greatest velocity (in c) attained by a human-made spacecraft before 2050?

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Will Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster be visited by a spacecraft before 2050?

Will the maximum speed of a human spacecraft reach at least 66,000 km/s (0.22 times the speed of light) by 2075?

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What will be the greatest velocity (in c) attained by a human-made spacecraft before 2050?

0.00235

Will Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster be visited by a spacecraft before 2050?

Will the maximum speed of a human spacecraft reach at least 66,000 km/s (0.22 times the speed of light) by 2075?

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