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Ten Quick Questions with Ann Druyan

Taken from the Science Channel site

Ann Druyan is a writer (A Famous Broken Heart; Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors) and the CEO of Cosmos Studios, a production company based out of Ithaca, N.Y. Ms. Druyan is also the widow of Carl Sagan, whom she collaborated with on both the Voyager Golden Record and the epic series, Cosmos. Here, she talks about what it was like to work on the series, her husband's contributions to the scientific community and beyond, and her own legacy with the Solar Sail.

Q: You're now involved in a project called Solar Sailing. Can you talk a little about it?
A: Solar Sailing is a way of moving through space at 10 times the 38,000 mph of the Voyager spacecraft, using reflective sails that look like Mylar. There are six pointed 60-foot-long sails; they're huge and very thin. Once they open, if we can prove they're powered by photons from the sun, we will have had a Wright Brothers moment. The sail will move five-tenths or one-half the speed of light. By the time it gets to another solar system, it will be one-tenth the speed of light.

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((((((((OMG this is awesome!!!!!!!!! when i'm older i'll be able to travel around space!))))))))~ SiR , your blog author ;)