NASA & Nuclear Powered Space Rockets
Nuclear Rockets Are The Fastest Way To Mars Source: Nuclear Spacecraft Artist Image Source: USNC-Tech Nuclear Space Rocket Technology Under Development By 2035, NASA wants to land astronauts on Mars. And NASA wants to get the astronauts to the Red Planet as quickly as possible to minimize exposure to space radiation and reduce travel risks. To achieve that, the space agency wants the Mars mission launched on a nuclear powered space rocket. It would reduce the travel time to Mars, which is 140 million miles from Earth, to three months instead of nine months on current rocket technology. The total Mars mission would take less than 2 years instead of more than 3 years. Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Seattle-based Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC-Tech) is developing a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) rocket engine to do the job. The company says the technology is more powerful and twi