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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: russian solar sail?+
- Message-ID: <C093CE.Fxx@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 23:45:49 GMT
- References: <ida.725390192@atomic> <1993Jan1.181236.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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- In article <1993Jan1.181236.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >... 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..
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- Actually, it was a race to Mars. It didn't come about; the organizers
- flubbed the job of fundraising pretty spectacularly. It's been revived
- as a race to the Moon under somewhat different ground rules. Timing
- and funding is still rather indefinite, last I heard.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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