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Wiley, Carl A.

 Person

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Carl A. Wiley collection on solar sails

 Collection
Identifier: MS-315
Abstract

The collection contains working papers, articles, proposals, and other documents on solar sails created by Carl A. Wiley, an engineer and mathematician that authored one of the first accounts of how solar sails could be assembled in orbit and used as spacecraft propulsion devices.

Dates: 1950-1991, undated