The 2069 Alpha Centauri mission is a mission concept introduced by NASA to launch an interstellar probe by the year 2069 to search for biosignatures on planets around the stars of the Alpha Centauri system. The mission concept is not yet funded, unnamed, and the technology to get there does not exist yet.
A preliminary mission concept suggests using "solar sails" propelled by high energy lasers to increase propulsion. The proposed launch date would be on the 100th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. If launched, the spacecraft would reach Alpha Centauri in the year 2113, 44 years after its launch, traveling 10% at the speed of light.