To: GraceG
There are also plans on the drawing board for nuclear rockets that are feasible which would make a trip to mars take only a month or two...... Yet NASA just launched a solar powered craft to Jupiter, where only nuclear powered craft have gone before.
Guess we need more climate science from NASA instead....
Yep. I wouldn't count on anything nuclear powered out of them for manned spaceflight. NASA actually developed a successful nuclear upper stage 40 years ago, but Congress canned it.
15 posted on
08/31/2011 1:58:20 PM PDT by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Moonman62; GraceG
There are also plans on the drawing board for nuclear rockets that are feasible This is a reference to propulsion.
NASA just launched a solar powered craft to Jupiter, where only nuclear powered craft have gone before.
This is a reference to payload power supply.
Nothing quite like comparing apples to atom bombs ...
22 posted on
08/31/2011 2:53:48 PM PDT by
ArrogantBustard
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