[Young Werther]

As we look to the future, the clarion call of Mars ranks high in the halls of space advocacy. The recent Ad Astra the magazine of the National Space Society reports that NASA is once again looking at nuclear propulsion options.

[KevinDavis]

Cool

[Notforprophet]

Very cool site! Good post!

[Wonder Warthog]

"The recent Ad Astra the magazine of the National Space Society reports that NASA is once again looking at nuclear propulsion options."

Go nukes. When I was taking my minor in nuclear chemistry, one of the faculty was a nuclear engineer who had worked on the Nerva project. Shielding specialist--really knew his stuff.

[Centurion2000]

Let's light off some nukes and plant a colony on Mars .... this needs to be done. Humanity is getting pretty unstable.

[vannrox]

Massive COOL site BUMP!!!!

[GovernmentShrinker]

There was a discussion about Mars a couple of days ago on this thread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/804101/posts

Ignore the original topic of the post -- Mars discussion began at post #5.

[martian_22]

Please send more Mars probes.
They're delicious....

[John Jamieson]

YES! We'll need a new Sat V class booster to make it work and we'll have to trash the space station white elephant. Both very past due.

[Brett66]

I see they're using VASIMR for propulsion, I hope by now noone is seriously entertaining the idea of chemical rockets as primary propulsion to get to Mars.

[farmfriend]

ping

[anymouse]

Space ping

[anymouse]

Mars ping