NASA: Nuclear propulsion needed to explore outer solar system
Although work in nuclear fission for space propulsion has been largely stalled since the 1960s, nuclear power may well be the only way to explore the outer solar system and beyond, according to Les Johnson of NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Missions that call for entering orbit...
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