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NASA charts course to sail to the stars on largest spacecraft ever built

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An artist’s concept of a space sail

(NASA Marshall artwork)

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A space sail, as depicted in an artist’s concept at right, could power interstellar missions beyond our solar system. Les Johnson, manager of Interstellar Propulsion Research at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., holds a rigid, lightweight, carbon fiber material that could be used to build a giant space sail. Marshall engineers are conducting laboratory experiments to evaluate and characterize materials for space sails.

(NASA Marshall photo)

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