[Interview] Solar Sail Propulsion: Reality VS Fiction with Les Johnson
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Les Johnson is the Principle Investigator with NASA\'s upcoming Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission that will fly on the SLS and test solar sail navigation. But at the same time, he\'s a science fiction author. So, in this interview, we discussed both these sides of his life.
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- 00:00 - Intro \\n
- 01:01 - Meet Les Johnson \\n
- 02:19 - Working at NASA and being a science fiction writer at the same time \\n
- 06:50 - Solar sails proplusion \\n
- 10:29 - Flying towards the Sun with solar sails \\n
- 14:32 - Near-Earth Asteroid Scout mission flying on the SLS \\n
- 21:07 - Why so few solar sails are used now \\n
- 27:07 - What\'s the future of solar sails \\n
- 39:07 - Methods of interstellar exploration \\n
- 53:02 - Role of science fiction in modern space exploration \\n
- 01:00:10 - Outro \\n
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