A sail is something you’d expect to see on a boat in ocean, not in space. But that’s just what a Japanese spacecraft called Ikaros is using to fly through the solar system.
Want to travel to Mars in in the next year or two? Well maybe you can’t go, but NASA is happy to take your name there instead.
Spoke to Richard Glover on ABC702 Sydney about NASA’s LCROSS spacecraft is preparing a violent return to the moon later today as part of a mission to send a satellite and a rocket booster crashing into the lunar surface to look for water.Archives
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