Nuclear Starship - Earth to Mars in 3 months and ready for use by SpaceX in less than ten years?
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The Angry Astronaut explores a nuclear drive that was developed and tested half a century ago, and how this drive could change everything for the Starship before the end of this decade.
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The history of nuclear thermal rockets
https://www.lanl.gov/science/NSS/issue1_2011/story4full.shtml
A comprehensive history of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (Published 25 years ago!)
https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a305996.pdf
NASA finally getting into gear on this far superior technology
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/game_changing_development/Nuclear_Thermal_Propulsion_Deep_Space_Exploration
Even more recent info on NASA getting Nuclear Thermal propulsion ready for the very near future!
https://www.defenceonline.co.uk/2020/09/24/ga-ems-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-nasa/
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