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LightSail Then and Now

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LightSail Then and Now

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Tom's Hardware

2 Views • Jun 08, 2015

Description

In 1976, Carl Sagan appeared on The Tonight Show to talk about a crazy new idea: solar sailing. Nearly 40 years later, The Planetary Society is realizing this dream with a new spacecraft called LightSail designed to propel through space on beams of sunlight.