Four men set out for Alpha Centauri on a 500-year journey where each will awaken only a handful of times. That’s not time travel, of course, but be patient and you will run into real time travel.

Van Vogt combined this with two other stories and some fix-up material (especially for “Far Centaurus”) for his 1970 publication of Quest for the Future.
We’re here! It’s over, the long night, the incredible journey. We’ll all be waking, seeing each other, as well as the civilization out there. Seeing, too, the great Centauri suns.

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  1. “Far Centaurus” by A. E. van Vogt, Astounding, January 1944.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by A. E. van Vogt

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  1. Quest for the Future by A. E. van Vogt (July 1970).