uppose a spaceship has the mass of a typical ocean cruise ship, then it can be assumed that it has a mass of 3.1 × 108 kg. Consider the kinetic energy required at 13 % of the speed of light. If energy to get a spaceship to cruising speed is generated using matter-antimatter annihilation, what mass of antimatter in kg is require

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