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Nuclear rockets could get us to Mars in weeks, and they’re almost here

By the year 2035, NASA plans to send humans to Mars. But it would be about a nine-month trip with our current rocket ...
Digital Journal

NASA gets $125 million to develop nuclear thermal propulsion

The award is part of a total $22.3 billion of funding for NASA in a commerce, justice, and science (CJS) appropriations bill approved by the House Appropriations Committee this month. “The bill’s ...
New Scientist

Nuclear rockets could help land man on Mars

EIGHT years from now a planetary probe could boost itself out of Earth’s orbit, fire up its fission reactors and head off on a nuclear-powered quest for alien life beneath the crust of one of ...
Digital Journal

Kilopower Project — NASA testing space-rated fission power unit

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is developing a new generation of modular nuclear reactors that will power manned outposts on the moon and Mars, providing a simple, yet ...
The Conversation

Nasa bets big on nuclear engines to cut journey times to Mars

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...