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Unless we embrace nuclear energy for space flight this would never happen. Looks like NASA is developing thermal nuclear rocket https://www.nasa.gov/directorat
by andyxor 5y ago
Unless we embrace nuclear energy for space flight this would never happen.
Looks like NASA is developing thermal nuclear rocket https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/nuclear-propulsion-could-help-get-humans-to-mars-faster https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/nuclear-propulsi...
- ncmncm 5y agoThermal fusion rockets, meanwhile, languish. The Princeton group got some money, but under current plans cannot hope to fly a test vehicle before 2035. Yet another victim of the Tokamak mirage. Field-reversed configuration, D-H3, aneutronic.