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Discover how essential space travel technologies have journeyed back to Earth with surprising and indispensable commercial applications.
Discover how essential space travel technologies have journeyed back to Earth with surprising and indispensable commercial applications.
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S8, EP12 "Star City, Moscow"Star City, the Gagarin Center for Training Cosmonauts, was established by the former Soviet Union in the 1960s as a school for the future conquerors of space.
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S13, EP27 "Batteries"Mixtures of metals and caustic chemicals that make our tech, tools and toys surge with energy; visit the world's most powerful battery in Fairbanks, Alaska--13,760 hulking cells humming with 5,000 volts, ready to help the city survive power outages.
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S14, EP10 "Mad Electricity"Each flip of an electric-light switch attests to the genius of Nikola Tesla, creator of the alternating current (AC) system; the Tesla coil; energy-efficient bulbs.
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