stackyFACTSWhen he wasn't designing the literal Lunar Rover, NASA genius Georg von Tiesenhausen spent his free time trying to make terrestrial trains levitate. He drew up plans for tracked hovercrafts that would blast across the US at 300 mph on a cushion of air, a brilliant idea violently murdered by the cruel reality of infrastructure funding.
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