On Episode 152 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik host Dr. Robert O'Brien, Director of the Universities Space ...

He also worked on the famous Project Orion, which used nuclear bombs for propulsion. In this article we’ll take a look at these and other parts of Mr. Dyson’s legacy, as well as the influence ...

Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of the nuclear test ban treaty and concerns over fallout inside the ...

A British company says they developed a secret nuclear rocket that could cut in half the mission times to Mars. Pulsar Fusion ...

followed in the 1990s by research at Pennsylvania State University into antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion. At this point NASA and others are actively researching different types of ...

There is an online site for determining solar system travel times with advanced propulsion. The most probable torchship designs proposed are nuclear pulse propulsion (e.g., Project Orion) and nuclear ...

The key to this breakthrough lies in an advanced power source: a nuclear microreactor. This technology will provide the ...

and future potential of nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion systems, which could revolutionize our ability to explore Mars and beyond — both robotically and with human crews.