SPACE SAILS
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is developing space sail technology with an eye toward powering future space exploration missions that may go beyond our solar system. (See rendering) The reflective sails--which could be propelled through space by sunlight, microwave beams or laser beams--would...
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