Like the first book, the new book surveys the hot spots in the clean tech space, which include net-zero energy green buildings, advanced waste heat technologies for combined heat and power and several other technologies.

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The biggest technological challenge will be transporting the collapsed module through the sub-zero temperatures of space without tearing or cracking any part of it, Miller said.

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One example is the integration of Born Ready Games' long-awaited space shooter, "Strike Suite Zero".

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In the zero-gravity void of interstellar space, the crafts might survive indefinitely, traveling the universe for all eternity.

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Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".

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