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Report: NASA’s only realistic path for humans on Mars is nuclear propulsion – Ars Technica
“It’s the kind of technology challenge that NASA was built for.”
Enlarge/ NASA originally studied nuclear thermal propulsion in the 1960s. Here is concept art for the Nuclear Energy for Rocket Vehicle Applications (NERVA) program.
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Getting humans to Mars and back is rather hard. Insanely difficult, in fact. Many challenges confront NASA and other would-be Mars pioneers when planning missions to the red planet, but chief among them is the amount of propellant needed.
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