JS>>Then I stumbled upon a book I'd had in the 1970's.
JS>>There it clearly stated, in 1972, that in the 1960's NASA had had a
JS>>working ION engine. It ran for 40 hours on a test bed - 30+ years ago.
JS>>It was supposed to be the next generation space probe engine. But it's
JS>>not.
JS>Work on them continued thru the 70s until today where they
JS>finally have truely reliable working engines. One is about to be
JS>used on NASA's "Deep Space-1" space probe, to be launched this
JS>year I understand.
        Ion engines are nothing more than improved rockets. What we need
is more research into elementary particle physics. Maybe after the
superstring theory is completed, batter "engines" will be developed (one
that produces gravity and anti-gravity). Until then we'll be always
stuck on Earth.
        Rockets were already explained by Newtons laws. That's
couple hundred years old.
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