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    This Used To Be the Future

    by Rachel B. Sussman Sep 10, 2015 3 minutes

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    NASA Ames is filled with the exotic technologies of a future that didn’t quite come to pass. Ancient computers still operate equipment in the machine shop. A decommissioned nuclear missile sits in a parking lot, and the twin of the International Space Station sits out in the open air, under a tarp.

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