Night With A Nerd: Alan Carr On Beyond The Moon The next Night with a Nerd is 6 p.m. March 11 via zoom. Abstract: Between 1955 and 1973, LASL (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) attempted to build a reactor engine for space travel intended to carry astronauts far beyond the moon. The Rover Program, as it was known, successfully produced three reactors suitable for flight testing, including the Phoebus-2A: the most powerful individual reactor of any type ever built. Unfortunately, the proposed mission to Mars was canceled in the early 1970s and the Rover Program along with it. Still, the Rover Program changed history. Beyond the Moon tells the story of this forgotten but amazing program.