A Conceptual Design for Humanity's First Interstellar Journey to Proxima Centauri: My Proposed Methods and Thoughts

Interstellar travel represents one of humanity’s oldest and most profound dreams. Proxima Centauri, located only 4.24 light-years away and hosting at least one potentially habitable rocky exoplanet, stands as the most realistic target for our first journey to another star system. This paper presents a comprehensive conceptual design for a crewed or advanced robotic mission to Proxima Centauri, building upon historical propulsion concepts while introducing an original multi-stage architecture. Th