The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...

Robert Zubrin's Nuclear Salt Water Rocket (NSWR) design is a rocket that uses known physics and engineering . There are ...

Zubrin also had a design for interplanetary propulsion called the Nuclear Salt ... allowing the ship to reach Alpha Centauri in about 120 years. Deceleration could be accomplished without the use of ...

The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...