[Brett66]

As far as I can tell, based on the "3X faster" desription, this is the VASIMR. This is good news, this technology cannot be allowed to languish. Hopefully we'll see real results and not just talk, but this is NASA.......

[Brett66]

Ping.

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[rmmcdaniell]

Project Orion reborn? I'll bet this one will take decades just to fight off the inevitable environmentalist disruptors.

[curmudgeonII]

If the damn thing explodes [which has happened with some degree of frequency with rockets], how big an area is it going to contaminate?

[Paul Ross]

[Sparta]

Is this fission rockets or fusion rockets? I think fusion rockets, when we discover hyperspace-type capablities, will take us past the speed of light and power the US Air Force and US Navy starships and starfighters of the 22nd Century.

[Savage Beast]

"a two-month voyage"

That's good. At least they don't have to come back and find out their families died thousands of years ago.

[Interesting Times]

Impressive.

How often do you have to change the dilithium crystals?

[LibWhacker]

I'm all for this, but would really like to see them bring Orion back in a big way. "We've" GOT to do it sooner or later and quit putzing around with this horse-and-buggy chemical rocket stuff if we want to get anywhere.

[KevinDavis]

That would be so cool if have nuke propulsion. We could have one now if it wasn't for the envrio weenies. What would be cooler is either hyperspace or warp drive??

[dogbrain]

bookmarking for future deal with Kim Il Jong.....