Welcome - I'm frustrated

I'm not a physicist at all. But I am interested in science and especially astrophysics. I think it is fascinating and frustrating at the same level to see how the universe evolved and how insignificant our planet is, and thus myself. Why frustrating? Just look at the distances:

The nearest star, after the sun of course, Proxima Centauri, is located at a distance of about 4,3 light years (around 40 millions of millions of km). How long will it take to reach it?

Take the good old space shuttle. In orbit it could reach 28 000 km/h, that's pretty fast. Traveling at that speed you could reach Proxima Centauri in around 166 000 years (we won't even discuss how many fuel we would have to take with, and the problems it will generate, etc).

In 1969 the Saturn V (Apollo 10 mission) rocket reached a maximum speed of 39 897 km/h. Traveling at that speed will reduce the journey to around 116 000 years. That's already 50 000 years less.

Saturn V (Apollo 10)

But what about the mars missions? Well, the Rocket that carried Curiosity traveled at about 33 800 km/h, it was slower than the Apollo 10. The problem is always the fuel needed which has to be carried with that will make the rocket heavier. So you will need more fuel...

In April this year Nasa announced the fusion rocket. That rocket could in theory accelerate a craft to around 322 000 km/h. In theory we could then reach our nearest neighbour in 14 500 years. That's a great improvement, but still a very long journey...

And that is only our next star. Imagine traveling our whole galaxy, which is about 100 000 light years in diameter. The next galaxy, the Andromeda galaxy, is about 2 538 000 light years away. And there  are billions of galaxies in our visible universe. So yeah. I think we are stuck on our island unless someone will find a new way to travel through space. Maybe someone will build the Alcubierre drive?