The Practicalical Romance of Solar Sailing, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.

Solar sailing is much more than light sail.

Jason Davis is back with a review of projects that will send light-driven

sales into space and possibly even to other stars. Then we'll visit with the

founding executive director of the Planetary Society.

Lou Friedman has probably been our planet's most influential advocate and pioneer of solar sailing.

And in an expanded visit with Bruce Betts, we'll hear the current status of the

Planetary Society's Light Sail 2 heading for orbit next year. We've also got a couple of

space trivia contests to wrap up with Bruce.

My colleague Jason Davis is the Society's digital editor.

We talked a few days ago via Skype.

Jason Davis, welcome back to the show. Hey Matt, thanks for having me.

Always great to be here. Well I appreciate that. We're glad to have you. A little bit different today,

you've been our go-to guy,gu and Bruce Betts of course,

project manager, I think, is his title for the Light Sale Project.

Any spat at getting manager, director,

and all those interchangeable terms straight,

but yes, that sounds right. I'm glad somebody else suffers with that confusion

you of course are our embedded reporter in the light sale project a great term you're really in the trenches

with that with that project yes we're going to go to

Bruce for a quick light sale to update in a few minutes as part of this week's

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