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Nuclear-powered rocket could get astronauts to Mars faster
By 2035, NASA wants to land humans on Mars. But reaching the red planet, on average around 140 million miles away, will be a mammoth feat. Colder than Antarctica and with little to no oxygen, Mars is a hostile environment. The longer it takes astronauts to get there and the longer they stay, the more they are at risk. (www.cnn.com) Más...
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I know this is not planes, but it is still flying.... even though way out there... Litterally!
I love this stuff but it’s hardly any news. In the 60’s the Russians already tested the RD-0410. The NIKIET institute has been developing a newer variant since 2018. Keep up to date by following Scott Manly on youtube ;)
This still looks a little safer than the earlier thoughts on nuclear propulsion of detonating nuclear bombs behind the spacecraft and blasting it through space.
That is nuclear pulse propulsion (project Orion) which is a totally different concept. There are many forms of nuclear propulsion, this one uses the heat of the fission to expand the propulsion gas, another form of nuclear propulsion is to generate electricity and use that to magnetically accelerate a positive charged propulsion gas, you can’t compare oranges with lemons :)
