Interstellar - Blog Posts

Some designs for a spacecraft in a story I'm working on.

I'm no concept artist, but here are some basic sketches.

I've tried to make them as realistic as possible.

Any advice is appreciated!

A guestion about realistic interstellar travel

Sorry about my English it's not my first language.

I'm not sure how i should tag this but here we go.

I'm working on my own little hard scifi project and i need some help with figuring out the science.

So i have a ship that travels the distance of 10.26 lightyears at 80% the speed of light.

I think it would take about 12 years to complete this journey. (For a outside observer)

And off course the ship would also need to first accelerate and deaccelerate from that Velocity. That would take about 7 months each. (Constant acceleration of 1.5G during those months)

So in Total these 12 years plus the 1.4 years makes the journey 13.4 years long. But this is only to An outside observer.

I al aware of the effect of time dilation and i also want it to have a prominent role in my story. So my guestion is how much time Will the crew onboard the ship have subjectivly experienced?

Is some of the math i did right? Am i missing something? And does Antoine know how to explain the solution of this in laymans terms becaude i've tried looking it up and i still don't really understand it.

Thanks