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NASA Working on Star Trek Tractor Beam

Science fiction is becoming reality. In 1931, science fiction author E.E. Smith coined the term “tractor beam” and the concept continued to be used on Star Trek. Physicists at New York University and NASA’s Goddard Space Center are turning fiction into reality. They are developing tractor beams that will eventually use a beam of energy/light to move objects in space.…