Slashdot: NASA Looks At Reviving Atomic Rocket Program
NASA Looks At Reviving Atomic Rocket Program
Published on August 12, 2017 at 09:00AM
Big Hairy Ian shares a report from New Atlas: When the first manned mission to Mars sets out, it may be on the tail of an atomic rocket engine. The Space Race vintage technology could have a renaissance at NASA after the space agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama signed a contract with BWXT…