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7 Nov 2009
Top Story: Solar Sailing
By Dauna Coulter, Science@NASA
The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing ships Long ago, someone stood alone on a sandy shore and gazed longingly out at the seemingly endless expanse of ocean, over a horizon...
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> Hitching a Ride on a Magnetic Bubble
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The world's space agencies are planning to explore space with the technology of sailing ships Long ago, someone stood alone on a sandy shore and gazed longingly out at the seemingly endless expanse of ocean, over a horizon...
> Read this article
> Super Spaceships
> Hitching a Ride on a Magnetic Bubble
> Plastic Spaceships
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