NASA Tests Space Nuclear Propulsion Advances

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Workers in safety gear guide a large white cylindrical rocket motor or engine component with a black mounting flange as it's positioned within a blue steel test stand structure. Yellow crane equipment is visible on the left side

Written by Daniel Boyette

Nuclear propulsion and power technologies could unlock new frontiers in missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond. NASA has reached an important milestone advancing nuclear propulsion that could benefit future deep space missions by completing a cold-flow test campaign of the first flight reactor engineering development unit since the 1960s.

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