State of play of the solar sail.

[retrogradeorbit]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/science/space/10solar.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

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Comments

[sea_dogg]

woo!

but i wonder how they will slow down once they get there? another sail pointing at the star it's approaching?

also dude wrote a folk song about solar sail space travel? nutso