re solar sail data in article apr news duc auburn edu snydefj eng auburn edu frank j snyder writes i am looking for any information concerning projects involving solar sails are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project sure contact the world space foundation they re listed in the sci space frequently asked questions file which i ll excerpt world space foundation has been designing and building a solar sail spacecraft for longer than any similar group many jpl employees lend their talents to this project wsf also provides partial funding for the palomar sky survey an extremely successful search for near earth asteroids publishes foundation news and foundation astronautics notebook each a quarterly page newsletter contributing associate minimum of year but more money always welcome to support projects world space foundation post office box y south pasadena california wsf put together a little paperback anthology of fiction and nonfiction about solar sails project solar sail i think robert staehle david brin or arthur clarke may be listed as editor also there is a nontechnical book on solar sailing by louis friedman a technical one by a guy whose name escapes me help me out josh and i would expect that greg matloff and eugene mallove have something to say about the subject in the starflight handbook as well as quite a few references check the following articles in journal of the british interplanetary society v p v p v p v p v p v p can you guess that matloff visited fermilab and gave me a bunch of reprints i just found the file and k eric drexler s paper high performance solar sails and related reflecting devices aiaa paper probably in a book called space manufacturing maybe the proceedings of the second conference on space manufacturing the one at any rate submarines flying boats robots talking bill higgins pictures radio television bouncing radar fermilab vibrations off the moon rocket ships and higgins fnal bitnet atom splitting all in our time but nobody higgins fnal fnal gov has yet been able to figure out a music span higgins holder for a marching piccolo player meredith willson
