https://www.duckland.org/categories/space/ Recent content in Space on duckland.org Hugo en-us All rights reserved - 2006- Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:51:49 -0700 https://www.duckland.org/posts/2015/06/light-sail/ Tue, 16 Jun 2015 19:51:49 -0700 https://www.duckland.org/posts/2015/06/light-sail/ <p><img src="https://www.duckland.org/photos/LightSail/light-sail.webp" alt="Light Sail Mission Patch">{.align-left width=&ldquo;125px&rdquo; height=&ldquo;125px&rdquo;}</p> <p>Growing up in Houston, I have followed our space program off and on. I am also a big reader of Sci-Fi. So, when I heard about the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theplanetarysociety/lightsail-a-revolutionary-solar-sailing-spacecraft/description">Solar Sail Kickstarter Project</a> from <a href="https://www.planetary.org/">The Planetary Society</a>, I jumped on board. And, while they have raised almost 4 times their goal, I think that this is a project which will have more of an impact on humanity than some of the other projects.</p>