'Mechanic' satellite blasts off successfully

Ever watched Star Wars and been amazed at that planet looking ship? They should build one of those. Populate it so that our species can reproduce and ship it out into space where we will continue to search for other life. I think that that would be the only way that we will get far enough out there to find it. If you make it big enough, you will have everything you need to survive on it. There has got to be enough people willing to do it. If the countries of our planet would focus on this instead of war we could have already been a lot farther along as a species.

For full details (with illustrations) of this and related programs info and program histories:

Aerospace America, February 2007, "Satellite Hops Ride on Orbital Express," by J.R.Wilson, pp. 30 - 35, published by AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics).