NASA looks at reviving atomic rocket program

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NASA looks at reviving atomic rocket program
David Szondy  August 10, 2017
http://newatlas.com/nasa-atomic-rocket/50857/


A new engine being developed for NASA will use low-enriched uranium Cermet fuel rods (Credit: NASA)

When the first manned mission to Mars sets out, it may be on the tail of an atomic rocket engine. The Space Race vintage technology could have a renaissance at NASA after the space agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama signed a contract with BWXT Nuclear Energy to develop updated Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) concepts and new fuel elements to power them.

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