NASA Keeping Nuclear-thermal Option Open For Mars
Credit: Frank Morring, Jr./AW&ST
Safer fuel and a new concept for ground testing have nudged NASA another tiny step in the direction of using hydrogen heated by a small fission reactor to hasten humans on their way to Mars. Nuclear-thermal propulsion (NTP) has been studied since the Apollo era because of the high specific impulse...
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