Word: sailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be very slow," admits Emerson LaBombard, project director for the space sailer being developed by a U.S. team at the World Space Foundation in Pasadena, Calif. "In the first hour, we may zoom ahead and pick up a yard. In one day maybe 100 yards." But the acceleration would continue, ultimately resulting in speeds far in excess of 100,000 m.p.h. -- and without expending a drop of rocket fuel...