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A top NASA official revealed this week that the agency is teaming up with the Department of Defense ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2027 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency’s chief said on Tuesday. NASA will partner with the U.S. military's research and development agency, DARPA, to develop a nuclear thermal propulsion engine and launch it to space "as soon as 2027," NASA administrator Bill Nelson said during a conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

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After decades of false starts, a new push for nuclear-powered rocketry could make or break the space agency’s plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet

“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...