Making Light Work

Theory evolves toward practice—high-speed
travel in the frictionless medium of space.

Professional Pilot Magazine asked me to contribute a prediction about the future of flight for the next century. Naturally, I wrote about solar sailing. Writing the article allowed me to step back a bit from our efforts to make this first solar sail flight happen and focus my thoughts on future applications for solar sailing -- uses within our solar system and beyond.

The promise of light sails enabling new missions of application and exploration is what motivates The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios to reach for the stars.

-Louis D. Friedman

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Full Story

http://www.planetary.org/programs/projects/solar_sailing/20070615.html

Sailing by light is the only technology we currently know that might one day take us to the stars, and this is what motivates the high interest in solar sailing.

With Special Thanks to Cosmos Studios!

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Sir Ulli