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Animation of interstellar travel using a solar sail |
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Les Johnson, manager of Interstellar Propulsion Research at the Marshall Center, with a sample of carbon fiber material that could be used for space sails. |
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Les Johnson, manager of Interstellar Propulsion Research at the Marshall Center, says space sails will move extremely fast. Transcript: "A solar sail enables you to travel a lot faster than a conventional rocket. The missions that we're talking about will travel between 50-60 miles per second. To put that into perspective, that would be the equivalent of going from New York to Los Angeles in under a minute." |
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For copies of NASA’s interstellar travel video file, contact June Malone in the Marshall Center’s Media Relations Department at (256) 544-0034.
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