NASA's 'Nuclear Option' May Be Crucial for Getting Humans to Mars

A new push for nuclear-powered rocketry could make or break the space agency's plans to send astronauts to the Red Planet.

Nuclear Propulsion Could Help Get Humans to Mars Faster - NASA

“We're exploring both nuclear electric and nuclear thermal propulsion options for crewed Mars missions,” Calomino said. “Each technology has ...

Space Nuclear Propulsion - NASA

Nuclear Propulsion Could Help Get Humans to Mars Faster ... Three astronauts are on the surface of a unnamed planet. 6 Technologies NASA is Advancing to Send ...

Experts Ponder Nuclear Rockets To Send Humans To Mars - NPR

Nuclear rocket technology might be the fastest, safest way to get to the red planet. But if NASA wants to go, it should start development ...

Nuclear-powered rocket could get astronauts to Mars faster - CNN

The rockets that defined space travel ... By 2035, NASA wants to land humans on Mars. But reaching the red planet, on average around 140 million ...

Nuclear rockets could travel to Mars in half the time − but designing ...

NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several ...

NASA's Nuclear Rocket Could Shorten Trip to Mars to 45 Days

NASA will test a nuclear-powered rocket for space travel. The technology could speed up a manned trip to Mars from the current seven-month ...

NASA's Building a Nuclear Rocket That Would Get Us to Mars in ...

Deep space is a hostile environment for humans, which makes the long journey to Mars a serious stumbling block for manned missions.

NASA and DARPA plan to test a nuclear-powered rocket that could ...

NASA is planning to test the nuclear-powered rocket by 2027. If successful, It could allow humans to reach Mars in 45 days.

Op-ed | It's Time for Congress to Order the Nuclear Option

The United States must develop space nuclear propulsion technologies to enable 21st-century human missions to Mars.

NASA has sights set on Mars with help from a nuclear rocket engine

In the race to land the first humans on Mars, NASA is betting big on nuclear rocket engines to get its astronauts to the red planet.

Why NASA thinks nuclear reactors could supply power for human ...

NASA is developing a nuclear reactor (shown in this artist's rendition) that could power a human settlement on the moon.

Why NASA wants to put a nuclear power plant on the moon - CNBC

NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy will seek proposals from industry to build nuclear power plants on the moon and Mars to support its long- ...

Could Nuclear Power Aid In Travel To Mars? - NPR

On Mars, NASA's Perseverance rover is settling in after landing last week. The space agency also hopes one day to send people to the red planet.

Nasa's creating nuclear rockets to help put humans on Mars - WIRED

Instead, a regular chemically propelled rocket would hoist a nuclear-powered spacecraft into orbit, which would only then fire up its nuclear ...

How a NASA nuclear rocket engine could unleash the solar system

The two agencies will work on a nuclear thermal propulsion system, a technology NASA wants to use to send humans to Mars in the late 2030s. But ...

NASA to test nuclear rocket engine that could take humans to Mars ...

NASA has revealed plans to create a nuclear-powered rocket that could send astronauts to Mars in just 45 days.

Why Nuclear Engines Could Be The Answer To Future Mars Missions

Even modern rockets struggle to get large quantities of mass out of Earth's atmosphere and especially to distant planets. With NASA's ...

Nuclear-powered spacecraft: why dreams of atomic rockets are back ...

With NASA, the UK Space Agency and the European Space Agency all looking at nuclear-powered spaceflight, my bet is that the first crewed ...

Nuclear Technology Set to Propel and Power Future Space ...

Humanity is poised to embark on a new age of space travel to Mars ... human Mars mission would not be feasible without space nuclear reactors.