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====Pierre Boulle====
 
====Pierre Boulle====
* [[Books#Planet of the Apes]]
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* [[Planet of the Apes]]
  
 
====[http://www.davidbrin.com/ David Brin]====
 
====[http://www.davidbrin.com/ David Brin]====
* [[Books#Project: Solar Sail]]
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* [[Project Solar Sail|Project: Solar Sail]]
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====[http://www.clarkefoundation.org/ Arthur C. Clarke]====
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*[[Project Solar Sail|Project: Solar Sail]]
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*[[Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, 1917-2008]]
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====[[Benjamin L. Diedrich]]====
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mailto:ben@solarsails.info
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====[http://www.interworldtransport.com/ Alfred W. Differ]====
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====[http://e-drexler.com/p/idx04/00/0404drexlerBioCV.html K. Eric Drexler]====
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Eric Drexler invented the high performance solar sail for his MS thesis at the MIT department of Aeronautics and Astronautics. His current field of research is in nanotechnology, as chairman of the Foresight Institute and author of Engines of Creation.
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====[http://www.ewingresearch.com/ Anthony Ewing]====
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Systems engineering consulting specializing in research, design, and analysis of solar sail powered spacecraft.
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====[http://www.robertforward.com/ Robert L. Forward]====
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Robert Forward wrote numerous papers on space travel, including many novel solar sail designs and applications.
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These have included, but are not limited to, microwave sails, designs for flyby, one way, and two way laser driven solar sails, the solar photon thruster, and sail levitated orbits.
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Robert Forward was most recently a partner and chief scientist of Tethers Unlimited.
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He died on September 21st, 2002.
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*[[Robert L. Forward Obituary]]
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*[[Rocheworld]], Martian Rainbow, Timemaster, and others
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====[http://www.planetary.org/about/louis_friedman.html Louis Friedman]====
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Louis Friedman is the executive director of The Planetary Society.
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*[[Starsailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Travel]]
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====[http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/ Geoffrey A. Landis]====
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* [http://www.sff.net/people/Geoffrey.Landis/papers.html Papers on the web]
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====[http://www.kayser-threde.de/ Manfred Leipold]====
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mailto:Manfred.Leipold@kayser-threde.de
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Manfred Leipold currently works for [http://www.kayser-threde.com/ Kayser-Threde] on a solar sail demonstration mission.
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Kayser-Threde is the prime contractor/operator of this mission on behalf of the [http://www.esa.int/ European Space Agency (ESA)] and [http://www.dlr.de/ German Aerospace Center (DLR).]
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Older information on this project is available at the [http://www.kp.dlr.de/solarsail/ DLR Solar Sail Homepage.]
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====[http://www.mecheng.strath.ac.uk/staffmember.asp?name=McInnes,C Colin R. McInnes]====
 
====[http://www.mecheng.strath.ac.uk/staffmember.asp?name=McInnes,C Colin R. McInnes]====
 
mailto:colin.mcinnes@strath.ac.uk
 
mailto:colin.mcinnes@strath.ac.uk
 
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*[[Solar Sailing: Technology Dynamics and Mission Applications]]
* [[Books#Solar Sailing: Technology, Dynamics, & Mission Applications]]
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*[[Gossamer Spacecraft: Membrane and Inflatable Structures Technology for Space Applications]]
* [[Books#Gossamer Spacecraft: Membrane and Inflatable Structures Technology for Space Applications]]
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====Patricia Mulligan====
 
====Patricia Mulligan====
 
mailto:Patricia.Mulligan@noaa.gov
 
mailto:Patricia.Mulligan@noaa.gov
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* [[Gossamer Spacecraft: Membrane and Inflatable Structures Technology for Space Applications]]
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====Gregory L. Matloff====
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*[[The Starflight Handbook: a Pioneers Guide to Interstellar Travel]]
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*[[Deep Space Probes: To the Outer Solar System and Beyond]]
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====Eugene F. Mallove====
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*[[The Starflight Handbook: a Pioneers Guide to Interstellar Travel]]
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====Esther Morrow====
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*Paper: [http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v32n3/dps2000/369.htm Solar Sails at Asteroids: Close Proximity Operations for Scientific Missions (Abstract)]
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====[http://www.larryniven.org Larry Niven]====
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*[[The Mote in God's Eye]]
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====[http://www.magicdragon.com/jvp.html Jonothan Vos Post]====
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*[[Project Solar Sail|Project: Solar Sail]]
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====Dorothy M. Souza====
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*[[Space Sailing (2)|Space Sailing]]
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====Robert L. Staehle====
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Robert Staehle was the president of the World Space Foundation and currently works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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====[http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~scheeres/ Daniel J. Scheeres]====
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*[http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~scheeres/reprints.html Publications]
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====Fridrikh Tsander====
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Fridrikh Tsander was an early Russian space visionary who discussed using large, lightweight mirrors for spacecraft propulsion.
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====Konstantin Tsiolkovsky====
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Konstantin Tsiolkovsky was an early Russian space visionary who discussed the possibility of propelling spacecraft by using a beam of light like rocket exhaust.
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====[http://sail.quarkweb.com/ Jerome L. Wright]====
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mailto:wright1225@hotmail.com
  
* [[Books#Gossamer Spacecraft: Membrane and Inflatable Structures Technology for Space Applications]]
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Jerome Wright developed a trajectory to rendezvous with Halley's Comet by solar sail in a little over four years from a 1981 launch. Wright joined a JPL project prompted by his work to design a solar sail for a Halley rendezvous. This was the most thorough study of solar sailing to date, which produced much valuable information on solar sailing in general and on specific configurations. Unfortunately, funding was cut for the solar sail in favor of ion engine propulsion, which was also cut. After the JPL project was canceled, Wright and others started the World Space Foundation, which built square solar sail engineering models and manufacturing equipment. Their design was to be launched on a race against other sail designs by groups around the world in a race to the moon and mars.
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*[[Space Sailing]]
  
 
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