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Mars in 45 days is now real inside NASA’s wild nuclear rocket plan
Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered ...
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'Somebody perhaps decided to test us': How a Norwegian weather rocket almost sparked a nuclear war
A Norwegian rocket launched on 25 January 1995 in order to study the Northern Lights, was mistaken by Russia for an incoming ...
As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
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Mission Mars: Nuclear thermal propulsion could double efficiency of rockets
MIT master’s student Taylor Hampson is advancing research into nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), thanks ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Every year, companies and space agencies launch hundreds of rockets ...
Going to the moon was one thing; going to Mars will be quite another. The distance alone is intimidating. While the moon is ...
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