"Let's move slowly, sir," he said. "We're moving fast. I don't know if you can picture it, but we're going about one hundred thousand miles an hour."
"Through space?"
"Yes."
"What direction?"
Paul cut in. "It's a G type star, like our own sun in mass and luminosity. We hope to find a planetary system capable of supporting life."
"I can't grasp it. How can we go very far in a lifetime?"
"It can be done in two lifetimes," John said quietly.
"You said I had flown this ship. You meant before this suspension."
"Yes. That's why we can cross space to a near star."
"How long ago was it?"