Come sail away, come sail away, come sail away with meeeeeeeeee...

Regular readers of this blog (both of you) are well aware that I'm a huge science fiction dork, and have a boner for interstellar travel in general and solar sail technology in particular. So I would be remiss in not pointing out that there's an experimental sail, NanoSail-D, ready for launch at the end of this month. Jump with all your might...

And the Planetary Society's version, Cosmos 2, is still in the works, hopefully a step above Cosmos 1, which turned into space confetti...