Too bad NASA’s plan for space-based solar never happened

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By Suzanne JacobsSep 21, 2015, 4:20 pm89 pts
It’s always irksome when tech companies talk about their latest “moonshot.” The actual moonshot was one of the most incredible accomplishments of humankind. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged NASA to put someone on the moon by the end of the decade, and NASA, which hadn’t even put someone in…

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