From antimatter rockets to flying robots, NASA's wish list of technologies for space exploration stretches the imagination. The ideas appear in the agency's proposals for technologies from propulsion to robotics it might develop in the decades ahead. The US National Research Council has been asked to evaluate the plans and is discussing them in a series of meetings this week in Washington DC. The fuel that powers rockets also weighs them down. That's where antimatter comes in. (source: newscientist.com)
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