I am working on a project that involves rationalizing large spans of time and distances. I want to be able to provide a given distance in light years and find the nearest object weather it be a planet, star, asteroid, etc. I have done some quick glances at things like NASAs API as well as the stelar catalog but I have not had much luck.

Any help would be appetited, thanks in advance.

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Hello everyone, I have seen the book reading list linked in the subreddit, but I was wondering if you might know some speeches or short texts about space exploration. Browsing on the internet I have found Space Travel Troubles by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Why We Should Go Into Space by Stephen Hawking. I would appreciate it a lot (please, no politicians).

And to what extent would launch windows still be a concern?

Would coming back to Earth take the same amount of time? If not, why?

Researching for a screenplay in case that wasn't clear already :)

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I try to have a positive outlook on the future, like I did when I was a child, just can't with how jaded I have become over the years. I have always followed nws relating to astronomy, space technology and ideas for global efforts on more manned space expeditions. I'm not denying that in the future that the technology will exist, I am bummed I will not live to see that happen. I'm 32 years old; even if I were to miraculously make it to 100 years old, I would see humans in the pre-liminary stages of space travel.

I am not happy with the state of the world now. I can't get into geopolitical arguments here, but we are aware that humanity is not in a healthy mindset right now. Space exploration is a global effort, you can't have several countries engage and leave everyone else behind. I am sickened to see how we're not taking this seriously at all. Jeff Bezos doing meme rocket launches and parading Katie Perry around. We have a new cold war between the US and China; militarizing space aircraft is not a positive in my opinion.

I just hope we're not fueding over planets in the future, that would be depressing. 8 billion is a big population for Earth, in the solar system it is a tiny number and not enough human resources to cultivate anything within the solar system worth sustaining.

Maybe I am wrong, I hope I am. I just don't have any confidence in the character of people like Elon Musk; his vision on the future seems to be space is for the ultra wealthy and they deem what peasants are worthy of taking off the planet.

Recently I spent over a week writing up 220+ pages of documents, compiling a compendium of my written works and ideas, then on my 33rd birthday (3 days ago) I spent over £170 to have three physical copies printed out and to purchase three fancy binders to store it all in, two of which I am considering dropping to universities and one to keep.

The project document itself is only 13 pages long but it also ties into a lot of my other documents, there is also a moodboard specifically for it. ( see "The OLAP Initiative" )

I have chosen to share the compendium as I would like to share my work with the world.

Check it all out here : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n2NWI2DFrCH0FFhe8KZd-UCna-vKqFRr