NASA to test nuclear-powered spacecraft by 2027

Posted 2023-01-25, Deutsche Welle Headlines

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NASA and the defense research agency DARPA believe they can safely use nuclear energy to power human spaceflight to the red planet.NASA will partner with the US military's research and development agency, DARPA, to develop nuclear-powered rockets that could fly astronauts to Mars. NASA says it could allow spacecraft to travel... read full story

"develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027."

Photo: In this illustration made available by NASA, the spacecraft containing the Perseverance rover slows down using the drag generated by traveling through the Martian atmosphere. (NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP)

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