Gaganyaan astronaut-candidate uses Project Hail Mary to explain space travel

Group Captain Angad Pratap, one of four astronaut-candidates for India's Gaganyaan human spaceflight programme, used star systems from Project Hail Mary to explain the challenges of future space exploration at a lecture in Thiruvananthapuram. He discussed Tau Ceti, about 12 light years away, and 40 Eridani, highlighting the enormous distances involved in interstellar travel.