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Nuclear Rocket Fuel Test Success Paves the Way for Faster Space Travel
A new test of nuclear propellant fuel under space-like conditions has been hailed as a success by NASA and General Atomics ...
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NASA and General Atomics test nuclear fuel for future moon and Mars missions
General Atomics and NASA achieved an important milestone on the road to using nuclear-powered rockets by testing a new fuel ...
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New fuel withstands nuclear thermal propulsion reactor conditions
The best, in fact, the only, candidate for this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system or nuclear rocket. First conceived of in 1945, this is a rocket that replaces burning chemical fuel ...
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Turning Up the Heat on Mars
Scientists have thought about attaching nuclear, thermal-rocket engines to ammonia-heavy asteroids and redirecting the asteroids so that they crash into Mars and release the meteor's ammonia and ...