[Red Badger]

SPACE PING!................

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Nothing can match the 1.21 gigawatt flux capacitor.

[Ciaphas Cain]

That second pic demands a caption.

"YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT! YOU'LL SHOOT YOUR EYE OUT!"

[sit-rep]

23,000 hours... = 2.6 years

I dont catch the drift... why would you need constant propulsion for 2.6 years? Propel to get to speed, do a 180 and propel to stop. ...and where are they going to put 2.6 years worth of fuel no matter how efficient the thrusters are?

[Terry L Smith]

Good ol school new name ion engine

[Wilderness Conservative]

How long before some NASA homo sells the technology to China?

[Jan_Sobieski]

Now that NASA is no longer a Muslim Outreach organization, they may actually be doing space work. However, why don’t they use the same rockets 🚀 they used for the Mars rover? Or did they lose those designs along with all the Apollo designs and data?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good to hear from from you. (Hope are well.)

Sounds like they (NASA) have tested the prototype Lithium in a “space-cold” vacuum chamber, but NOT by using a nuke to power it. The “nuclear drive” sounds like the 1-2 Megawatt reactor is the long-term GOAL as a continuous electric power source for the lithium drive.

[alexander_busek]

NASA’s Lithium-Fed Nuclear Thruster Flares to Life in First of Its Kind Test...The next-generation thruster could one day propel humans to Mars.

I'm waiting for the dilithium propulsion system!

Regards,

[mewzilla]

If the toilet doesn’t work, propulsion doesn’t matter.