Will we be able to visit other solar systems anytime soon?

[Biker]

Is there any promising ways to do that? Will it be within a person's life time? I am talking about both unmanned ships and eventually manned ones. Will there ever be a fast way to get to other systems or is humanity just stuck to earth? The idea that everything is there but unreachable is just..

Thank you in advance.

 

[PeroK]

Is there any promising ways to do that? Will it be within a person's life time? I am talking about both unmanned ships and eventually manned ones. Will there ever be a fast way to get to other systems or is humanity just stuck to earth? The idea that everything is there but unreachable is just..

Thank you in advance.

After the Moon landings, it became obvious how expensive and dangerous manned space flight was. There's no commerical payback. It's all scientific exploration, with the only commercial payback being any technological advancements from the R&D.

It's possible/probable that we could send a manned mission to Mars. But, the costs and risks are significant. There are several long threads on here about colonising Mars and/or the Moon. Some of us think this is futuristic fantasy; others, don't see many practical problems.

In terms of manned flights outside the solar system, that is beyond the horizon. I know some famous scientists have been promoting the idea on TV, but it really is so far beyond our current engineering capability that it's anybody's guess if and when we will ever do it.

 

[phinds]

Is there any promising ways to do that?

no

Will it be within a person's life time?

no

I am talking about both unmanned ships and eventually manned ones. Will there ever be a fast way to get to other systems

no, not as far as we know

or is humanity just stuck to earth?

pretty much

The idea that everything is there but unreachable is just..

realistic

I think we'll have unmanned probes eventually but It's not clear to me what/how we will learn from them