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Solar Sail Unfurls (NASA)


Image by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center
NanoSail-D deployment: The sail, made of extremely lightweight gossamer fabric manufactured by ManTech SRS of Huntsville, Ala. begins to unfurl supported by rigid trac booms provided by The Air Force Research Laboratory. The sail material is much thinner than a piece of paper (less than 1/16th the thickness of a human hair) and coated with an extremely thin layer of aluminum to enhance its ability to reflect solar energy. Here on Earth, gravity prevents the doors from fully opening but in the microgravity of space, the doors will swing open freely.

Credit: NASA/MSFC/D. Higginbotham

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www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/smallsats/nsd_deployment_begin…

coat guard at the helm.


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A.G. Lockwood and F. Quimet sail for Europe (LOC)


Image by The Library of Congress
Bain News Service,, publisher.

A.G. Lockwood and F. Quimet sail for Europe

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:
Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.16206

Call Number: LC-B2- 3085-12