"The lightsail will travel faster than any previous spacecraft, with potential to eventually open interstellar distances to ...

“Worst case, you spend a billion launching a space probe to study an asteroid and only realize it’s not an asteroid when you get there,” McDowell said.

The Space Rider project is an uncrewed ... slow down the test model to a safe speed to extract the parafoil that will allow the spacecraft to be steered to a landing strip. The enormous paraglider ...