Word: indiamen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spaceflights that cannot be considered now because of tremendous costs. J.P.L.'s Louis Friedman thinks that a flotilla of sunjammers could embark on a manned Mars mission by the end of the century, and foresees a day when fleets of huge kites shuttle through space-as the East Indiamen plied the oceans three centuries ago-making regular stops at Mercury, Venus, Mars or the asteroids...