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NASA’s Prometheus: Fire, Smoke And Mirrors
space.com ^
| 04/06/05
| Leonard David
Posted on 04/06/2005 6:11:59 PM PDT by KevinDavis
NASA’s Prometheus program to employ nuclear reactors in space is a work in progress – viewed as a key building block of the space agency’s vision for space exploration.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; mars; nasa; nuclear; prometheus; space; vasimr
Very cool
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; sionnsar; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; ...
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posted on
04/06/2005 6:13:21 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
Wow - if that JIMO concept becomes reality, I want a model to display on a shelf!
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posted on
04/06/2005 6:25:51 PM PDT
by
Viking2002
(Let's get the Insurrection started, already..............)
To: Viking2002; All
Well it is about time that we have nukes in space...
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posted on
04/06/2005 6:27:21 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: KevinDavis
Right and how are they going to launch them? using this same "Can't" do people!!
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posted on
04/06/2005 6:38:04 PM PDT
by
Fast1
(Destroy America buy Chinese goods,Shop at Wal-Mart 3/18/05 American was gone when I woke up)
To: Fast1
I thought the greenies got NASA to STOP launching
RTG's and
RHU's.
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posted on
04/06/2005 9:49:06 PM PDT
by
solitas
(So what if I support a platform that has fewer flaws than yours? 'Mystic' dual 500 G4's, OSX.3.7)
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