Mastodawn

just casually dropping in the middle of the Artemis hype that their next Mars mission in 2028 will use nuclear-electric propulsion

In a significant NASA announcement, Administrator Jared Isaacman and agency leaders outlined plans for a…

NASASpaceFlight.com

@winter i hope the next one will use coal ! 🥰

@modnarwave oh to be the Appalachian girl who has to shovel coal into the generator for six months

@winter @modnarwave not enough air in space for this to be feasible, so you're safe / sadly out of work, sorry

@estelle @modnarwave we will bring a huuuge oxidizer tank

@winter @modnarwave excellent, we solved the problem of cryogenic storage for the fuel! it is lumps of coal

@estelle @modnarwave here in the Appalachian space program we call it Thermal Stabilized Solid Carbon Fuel

@winter @estelle hey, i just met you, and this is crazy, but here is you job assignation, so coal is all you'll see !

@modnarwave @winter coal girl eva suit wasn't something i realized we would need, but here we are now