NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center

SAIL AWAY: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center may turn its back on powerful rocket engines to power humankind's first tentative steps toward the stars and usher in a new age of sail. Drawing on materials technology breakthroughs that have produced a carbon fiber fabric weighing less than one-tenth...

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