Falcon Beings

This is a Science-Fiction novel concerning an era nearing 2080, when the Technology and Livings are much more developed.
A world-wide project of 50 Countries in collaboration, designed and built a shuttle, to sent 11 best scientists on earth to a newly discovered planet, holding standards to support life. This planet is 18 light years away from Earth in anti-galactic center direction, lying in some other solar system.

This successfully launched spaceship has reached 12 ly in space, and occurs something very appalling and revolting, cutting off all the connections of these scientists from earth. Now, despite numerous attempts these 11 tellurians been unable to re-establish contacts with their parent planet.
At this far distance returning off-course seems no great option. So now, with no connections, no assistance from earth, armed only with their resources, they decide to take up an entirely new project, a very big and magnificent one..... something humans would never have planned earlier before....
It was Project EOL - "Evolution Of Life"