To boldly go . . . sailing

It sounds like something out of Jules Verne. But the idea of “solar sailing” holds out the promise of intergalactic travel and could be the future of space propulsion, as this article explains. Fascinating stuff.
Posted by Randy Scholfield

One Comment

  1. Art Vandale
    Posted June 24, 2005 at 11:08 am | Permalink

    I was very disappointed to see this project fail, I was however fairly bolstered to find out that if Russia had ever launched a nuclear attack on us, their missles would have malfunctioned. Four million in private funds down the tubes.