I wrote a piece on this in 2017 - (hadn't even been familiar with NERVA at that point, only having had a passing awareness of Orion). It was very much inspired

I wrote a piece on this in 2017 - (hadn't even been familiar with NERVA at that point, only having had a passing awareness of Orion). It was very much inspired by a Kerbal Space Program-inspired graphic. https://walkabout165.blogspot.com/2017/07/freely-zipping-around-solar-system.html https://walkabout165.blogspot.com/2017/07/freely-zipping-aro... Glad to see that nuclear thermal propulsion is getting attention, and there's buzz of more nuclear-propelled technologies on the horizon. I'll probably convert it into a substack and link here.