Spaceship

§ Constructing a spaceship and sending it on a successful journey to Alpha Centauri is one of the paths to victory. Alpha Centauri is the closest location of a potentially habitable world, so it has long been fantasized as the place most likely to contain other forms of intelligent life. Blasting into space with a ship capable of traveling to Alpha Centauri is a clear demonstration of the greatness of your civilization. Only an economical and scientific powerhouse could pull off such a feat.
§ The spaceship components can only be built after discoverying most of the modern era technologies. In order to construct any of the spaceship components, you must have first built the Apollo Program. Each component's production speed can be affected by several factors. Access to certain Resources (most notably Aluminum) can provide production increases for certain components. A Laboratory in the city that is building the component always grants a 50% increase in production speed. Finally, the Space Elevator wonder grants a 50% increase in production on spaceship components for all cities.
§ For more information about winning the game via the Spaceship, see the Victory Civilopedia entry.