If you could be the first to lay eyes upon a planet orbiting a distant star, would you go? If it meant that when you returned home-if you returned home-everyone you knew would have been dead for centuries, would you still go? The members of the Polaris Project knew what they were giving up when they volunteered to fly to the star named Angel-21, but the allure of being the first explorers to leave the Solar System far outweighed the risks. As it turned...