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To: Glenn Petersen who wrote (656)3/19/2008 5:10:40 PM
From: Snowshoe  Read Replies (1) of 9626
 
He published a short story in the March 1964 Boy's Life that I vividly recall because of the magazine cover illustration...

Sunjammer

John Merton, a spaceship designer, develops and promotes a lightweight spacecraft with a large area of solar sail, to be powered entirely by radiation pressure — the so-called wind from the sun. The sun-yachts start their journey in Earth's orbit, and, pushed simply by sunlight, can achieve a speed of two thousand miles an hour within a day.


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Found the magazine cover on Spanish eBay, of all places...

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