Selected Articles from the
May 2001 Odyssey

Editor: Terry Hancock

Sailing the Starry Skies

The May 2001 edition honors the upcoming Planetary Society Cosmos-1 Solar Sail mission. We have a few articles about solar sailing, including an overview by Bob Gounley and an excerpt on the technical details from the draft of Odyssey editor Terry Hancock's upcoming book Rocket Science 101.

We're also adding our congratulations to Dennis Tito as the first successful space tourist! Diane Rhodes gives us a brief tour of related websites for everyone following those developments.

• Gossamer Sails, Robert Gounley
• Theory of Light Sails, Terry Hancock
• The Surf Report, Diane Rhodes

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