Astronaut visits Aotearoa looking at emerging technology

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The Southern Hemisphere's only official astronaut is in Aotearoa looking at emerging technology to transfer energy wirelessly, even from space! This pioneering technology is being developed by Auckland based-company EMROD. Astronaut and Sao Paulo Senator Marcos Pontes is Brazil's former Minister for Science Technology, Innovations and Communications. He is also an engineer and joined NASA in 1998.