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- From: davem@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Michelson)
- Subject: Re: Solar Sail Race. Was Russian Solar Sailer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.165110.13353@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1993Jan6.041527.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:51:10 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.041527.1@acad3.alaska.edu> nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >IS the solar sail race supposed to be a manned mission or what.. Why must it be
- >a manned mission? Why not a robot mission.. A race in miniture.. Why not to
- >test the concept.. After all the race would neewd some form of chase plane to
- >be there incase of a accident.. So why not a unmanned mission. Unless I missed
- >the point or mentioned of unmanned. IF I did, forgive my ignorance..
- >
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- ALL solar sails are designed to be unmanned. They take too long to
- get from A to B to even think about putting people aboard. The life support
- requirements would be horrendous otherwise.
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- Dave Michelson
- davem@ee.ubc.ca
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