censored for “transphobia”Jan 29, 2023
Imagine if you’re on the 1-way trip to #Mars (offered by #MarsOne) which takes ~7 months, & while you’re on that trip you get passed by aircraft running on a #nuclearEngine, which only takes 45 days to reach Mars: https://web.archive.org/web/www.livescience.com/nasa-nuclear-powered-rocket (using archive.org link b/c original link is #Cloudflare)
Marco SiccardiJan 24, 2023

#NASA, DARPA Will Test #NuclearEngine for Future #Mars Missions

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-darpa-will-test-nuclear-engine-for-future-mars-missions

#space #science

NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Tuesday a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability for NASA crewed missions to Mars.

NASA
Winchell Chung ⚛🚀Nov 21, 2022

Solid- core Nuclear Thermal Rocket designs created by Dr. Stanley K. Borowski. These use the Small Nuclear Rocket Engine (SNRE).

Designs: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/realdesigns.php#borowski
SNRE: http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/enginelist2.php#snre

#AtomicRocket #NTR #spaceship #spacecraft #nuclearengine #nuclearrocket