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Costa Rica's Radical Rocket

Getting to Mars' or anywhere else in the solar system-may be easier with Ad Astra Rocket Co.'s plasma thruster

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Photo: Randi Silberman
MACHINE MASTERS: University professors visit the rocket facility for months at a time, advising the team and contributing their research. Here, Ivan Cruz, a local mechanical engineering professor, offers tips to the engineers on operating a lathe.
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