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Space inventions that didn’t quite take off

The saying that ‘necessity is the mother of invention’ is known to us all, and there have been many great ideas spawned in eureka moments. However, aside from ingenious flux capacitor, there have and will continue to be some clever concepts that never saw their true potential, and the

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