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First Solar Sail Might Soon Fly
« on: August 13, 2009, 09:24:07 AM »
How awesome!



Solar sails have long promised to harness sunlight for space exploration, just as early sailing ships harnessed the wind. Now the Planetary Society hopes to refit a NASA sail design and make a third U.S. attempt to fly the first solar sail in space.
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/090812-tw-solar-sail-new-mission.html
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