Lesbian Fiction ForumThere was a post on Slashdot pertaining to Solar Sails and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
That article led me to the Planetary Society's web page that discusses the solar sail project, Cosmos 1 that never reached orbit due to rocket failure. (one of the many Russian failed launches).
I returned to the Slashdot article and went to Andy's Brain site where they have an interview with JPL concerning solar sails.
I visit JPL's website so often I have it memorized (jpl.nasa.gov. how difficult is that??) so I went there next. As always I love to get lost in their site. I went to the section for Science and Research. I resisted the urge to wander through the image archives and instead followed a link to the NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) section.
Wow, you want NASA, JPL, space, etc. technical information? That's the place to go. WhooHoo! I know, I'm a geek and damn proud of it. Some of the papers are available on-line (mostly as .pdf's) but many you have to order. They also have links to many periodicals. Oh, and while browsing the main page, I found a link for Acronym Listings. It will help with the alphabet soup.
Solar Sails are an interesting method to cross the universe. This is the stuff fiction came up with decades ago.
Oh, and don't forget about LiveScience.com's Science of Fiction.
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