Artist's rendering of the proposed SR-1 Freedom spacecraft.
Credit: NASA
COLORADO SPRINGS—A new White House initiative to develop space nuclear power directs NASA to develop a minimum 20-kW fission reactor and fly a variant to the lunar surface by 2030, with an eye on having high-power reactors ready to launch in the 2030s. “This is the next giant leap,” NASA...
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