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(NASA/JPL-Caltech via SWNS)

By Dean Murray

Space scientists say they have slashed travel time to Mars.

Space scientists say they have slashed travel time to Mars

Scene from tests as a prototype of a powerful new lithium-fed electric thruster that could one day help send humans to Mars was successfully tested at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via SWNS)

Space scientists say they have slashed travel time to Mars

The prototype thruster. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via SWNS)

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