Solar Sails
On other "solar" related news:
It's only fitting that on what would have been Carl Sagan's 75th birthday, an organization started by the astronomer famous for his wondrous and elegant descriptions of the universe announced plans to test a wondrous and elegant way to explore the solar system and well beyond.
The nonprofit Planetary Society, which Sagan co-founded in 1980, unveiled plans at an event Monday on Capitol Hill for a 2010 launch of LightSail 1, a spacecraft pushed through space by sunlight. If successful, LightSail 1 would be followed by two higher-flying successors. The organization announced that it had received an anonymous $1 million donation that allowed the project to proceed.
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