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Aggressive Nuclear Propulsion R&D Effort Needed To Send Humans to Mars in 2039 – SpacePolicyOnline.com
Posted: February 12, 2021 11:56 pm ET | Last Updated: February 13, 2021 12:22 am ET | A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine…
A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concludes that if the goal is to send humans to Mars in 2039, an aggressive nuclear propulsion research and development program is needed and there is no time to waste.
NASA gave the Academies’ study committee a baseline mission against which to evaluate the maturity of Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) and Nuclear Electric Propulsion (NEP) technologies to take a crew of four to and from Mars.
The basic parameters were…
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