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Sandia National Laboratories engineers Elijah Jans, right, and John Murray (no relation to Jon Murray) test a thermal protection system material in an inductively coupled plasma torch. Material such as this protect hypersonic vehicles from the intense heat of traveling at more than 3,8000 miles per hour. 

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Photo by Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories

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