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The European Space Agency (ESA) is working on an innovative self-repairing spacecraft technology. This project, created in collaboration with Swiss companies CompPair and CSEM and Belgian firm ...

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Science fiction has had an interesting relationship to real science, sometimes predicting future advancements, and this movie was especially ahead of its time.