Trump Calls For Space Nuclear Power Development

Artist’s concept of new fission power system on the Moon.
Credit: NASA
President Trump issued his administration’s sixth Space Policy Directive (SPD-6) on Dec. 16, promoting the development of space nuclear power and propulsion technologies to support a permanent human presence on the Moon by the end of the 2020s and the human exploration of Mars in the decade that...

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