The Race is on to sail through Space

7:59 AM Sat 30 Oct 2010 GMT

'Ikaros - Japans’s successfully launched space sailer is now headed for Venus' .

It was sailing boats that set off from Europe in search of new trading routes and the new world to the East and West, and it seems that it will be sailing vessels that lead the way in the new world of space. John F Kennedy called space 'this new ocean', and just as hundreds of years ago multiple ships from multiple countries scoured the oceans of the world so multiple countries and organisations are involved in the search for viable solar space sailing. In June this year, Japan's kite-shaped 'space yacht', called the Ikaros, was successfully launched and started ...

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by Spectrum/Sail-World Cruising