“The nuclear industry views space as a new—and wide-open—market for their toxic product that has run its dirty course on Mother Earth.” “Now it appears that the nuclear industry has also infiltrated the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine that has been studying missions to Mars. ” It’s going to take enormous grassroots action—and efforts by those in public office who understand the error of the space direction being taken—to stop it. BY KARL GROSSMAN– CounterPunch, 16 Feb 21, A report advocating rocket propulsion by nuclear power for U.S. missions to Mars, written by a committee packed with individuals deeply involved in nuclear power, was issued last week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.