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- Subject: Re: russian solar sail?+
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.181236.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 02:12:36 GMT
- Article-I.D.: acad3.1993Jan1.181236.1
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- In article <ida.725390192@atomic>, ida@atomic (David Goldschmidt) writes:
- > I saw something a few months ago about a Russian plan to test a small solar
- > sail from the Mir space station on Dec 10. of this year. I haven't heard
- > anything about it since - does anybody know if it happened?
- >
- > You can email me at dsp@ccr-p.ida.org, or post to the net.
- >
- > Thanks in advance,
- > Dave Patterson, guest on this account.
-
- New one on me, but I have heard of the supposed race to the moon with solar
- sails, to celebrate the 500 anniversary of Columbus, not sure if it
- actually came about.. Maybe the olymbics will have a solar sale race or
- some other organization will have a solar sail race..
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- Michael Adams alias Ghost Wheel/Morgoth NSMCA@acad3.alaska.edu
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