As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
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NASA’s new nuclear engine could transform space travel forever
NASA’s push for a new nuclear rocket engine is not just another upgrade to the hardware we strap to the bottom of spacecraft.
Space agencies are moving closer to a new era of rocket propulsion that could fundamentally change deep-space travel. Nuclear ...
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Mission Mars: Nuclear thermal propulsion could double efficiency of rockets
A nuclear thermal propulsion engine could cut the travel time in half for future space explorers racing to the Red Planet.
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NASA’s nuclear rocket could reach Mars in just 45 days
NASA is backing a new generation of nuclear rockets that could compress the months-long journey to Mars into a sprint measured in weeks. The most ambitious concepts on the table promise crewed trips ...
The Space Age framed nuclear propulsion as a quiet rethinking of movement, distance, and endurance beyond Earth.
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets ...
MOSCOW, Jan. 4 (Xinhua) -- A nuclear-powered space engine prototype must be developed in Russia by 2030, and two gigafactories will be opened this year, Alexei Likhachev, director general of Russia's ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota; Preeti Nair, University of North ...
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