NASA: Time has not yet come for nuclear fission rockets
NO NUKE ROCKETS: NASA will not be exploring nuclear fission rocket technology as part of its $1 billion, five-year Nuclear Systems Initiative (NSI), according to NSI Program Executive Ray Taylor. NASA abandoned development of nuclear fission rockets in the 1960s. "We recognize now that in the...
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