<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Apparently Arthur C Clarke did a story on Solar Sail racing (Sunjammer, aka The Wind from the Sun, ~1963)<div> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunjammer</a></div><div><br><div>A graphic novel/short of it is at </div><div> <a href="http://240plan.ovh.net/~upngmmxw/imag/bd/bd_a.htm">http://240plan.ovh.net/~upngmmxw/imag/bd/bd_a.htm</a></div><div><br><div>
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Jerry Isdale<br><a href="http://MauiMakers.com">http://MauiMakers.com</a></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/">http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/</a></div></div>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 1, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Matt Johnson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I think that is an outstanding idea. It is rather ambitious, has<br>anyone even been able to steer a solar sail yet?<br><br>I agree with Alex a spacers cup might attract some real money.<br><br>--<br>Matt Johnson<br><br><br><br>On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Jerry Isdale <<a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com">isdale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">What do you think of a challenge to sail a solar sail around 3 earth<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Lagrange points?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Would it be possible to control a sail to navigate around three such points?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Maybe have a Spacers Cup, akin to America's Cup sail race.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Jerry Isdale<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:isdale@gmail.com">isdale@gmail.com</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">SpaceProgram mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:SpaceProgram@lists.hackerspaces.org">SpaceProgram@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/spaceprogram">http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/spaceprogram</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>SpaceProgram mailing list<br><a href="mailto:SpaceProgram@lists.hackerspaces.org">SpaceProgram@lists.hackerspaces.org</a><br>http://lists.hackerspaces.org/mailman/listinfo/spaceprogram<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>