Which kind of interstellar spacecraft would require the crew to be placed in suspended animation, perhaps for thousands of years?

A) solar sail
B) interstellar ark
C) matterantimatter rocket
D) nuclear rocket


B

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Most of the hot, young blue stars lie in the ________ of our Galaxy

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