Some exciting news connected to the Cosmology Project:
The Planetary Society will launch a test flight of LightSail on May 20, in preparation for its primary solar sailing mission in 2016.
The Planetary Society is a non – governmental Organization for democratic space exploration and its president is our “friend” you know from Science classes : Bill Nye -The Science Guy (see our first posts at Science category)
<Nye launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds needed for the Planetary Society’s LightSail project, which aims to make the long sought after idea of solar sailing a reality. More than $4 million had already been “raised by our 40,000 plus members around the world who just think it’s cool,” Nye says. These are scientists, enthusiasts and advocates “who just want to participate in space exploration, and who want to advance space science and exploration so that we’ll all learn more about the cosmos and what I like to call our place within it, our place in space.”>
Perhaps some of you will join the Bill Nye’s Society and become part of something really important!