NASA Revisits Nuclear Propulsion For Long Space Missions
Revitalized by today's powerful computer modeling tools, a once-abandoned gas-core nuclear rocket concept is now considered a feasible propulsion candidate for getting astronauts to and from Mars within nine months. An alternate nuclear-powered electric propulsion system could allow NASA to conduct...
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