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Artemis II Will Send Astronauts Around the Moon

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Gateway, shown in an artist’s rendering, is powered by an ion drive driven by solar-generated electricity. Alberto Bertolin/JSC/NASA PPE’s two large rollout solar arrays, each the size of NFL end zones, will generate the energy that will ionize and accelerate xenon gas in an electric propulsion system.

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When They Electrified Christmas

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Johnson, vice president of the Edison Electric Light Co., debuted electric Christmas lights when he lit up 80 hand-wired bulbs on a tree in the parlor of his New York City home. He also created a fire "burning" in the fireplace; in reality, it was colored paper illuminated from below by electric lights. began advertising.

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NASA’s New Shortcut to Fusion Power

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And scientists and engineers have continued to study the sun’s fusion process in hopes of one day using nuclear fusion to generate heat or electricity. Devastating accidents, like the ones at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Fukushima in Japan, can leave areas uninhabitable. But these generators convert heat to electricity at roughly 7.5

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