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  "textContent": "If an alien in the Alpha Centauri star system were craving pizza, it would take tens of thousands of years to deliver it using today’s rocket technology. According to a press release, researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a technology that could one day reduce delivery to a mere 20 years using nothing but light for propulsion.\n\nContinue Reading\n\n**Category:** Space Systems, Engineering\n\n**Tags:** Texas A&M Universty, Solar Sail",
  "title": "'Metajets' could allow future spaceships to be propelled by nothing but light"
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