Astronauts might ride a nuclear-powered rocket to Mars – BGR

• NASA and the European Space Agency, in addition to other space agencies, have been studying Mars for a long time with both rovers and orbiters.
• Crewed missions to the Red Planet are eventually going to happen, but the technology for such a mission doesn’t yet exist. 
• A company out of Seattle is working on nuclear technology that could be used to make missions from Earth to Mars (and back again) much quicker than it ever has been.

Mars has long been the subject of study by scientists here on Earth,…

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