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Hitching a Ride on Light Beam into Space

11:52:59 am mst / 17 February 2001 found by MysteriousStranger / filed in space / source How Stuff Works 152 hits / 1 comment / 0 e-mails

Scientists are developing a new propulsion system that will use light to send spacecraft, and anyone who wants to go, into orbit and to other planets.

Once again, science fiction slowly becomes science fact.

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OK...here's the thing I don't get... by MysteriousStranger 8:34:28 am mst / 19 February 2001 / # 1

maybe I missed something but all of the examples rely on igniting air for propulsion. How is that going to get anyone to the moon? The last time I checked, space is a vacuum.