ALBANY — Astronaut-to-be John Brooks, a student researcher at Columbia University, is enjoying an experience of a lifetime. The fifth-generation Albany native is studying nuclear fusion at the New York university.

“I feel somewhat privileged because it is a very noble effort,” Brooks said. “If we can figure out nuclear fusion, then it is truly a fix for the world’s energy crisis. (Nuclear fusion) is a very big and important problem, yet it is not an easy problem. The joke in the field is that we’ll get it 20 years away.”

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