The historian details the past, present and future of this energy source in "A History of the Atomic Space Age and Its Implications for the Future." As he writes, "
Nuclear rocket propulsion is the entry ticket to a permanent foothold in a new frontier" and the requirement for other technologies that will allow humans to live beyond the Earth in colonies across the solar system and beyond.
Some people are getting excited about autumn, others are getting worried about whether we'll make it through Kim Jong-un's
nuclear rocket testing.
This is a behavior that has not been studied by those who have studied "flow rate change transients" in
nuclear rocket systems.
(43) "Expert: Why Is the Second Artillery Being Elevated to the Rocket Force, the Fourth Military Service?" Global Times, January 9, 2016, available at <http://mil.huanqiu.com/ observation/2016-01/8346721.html>; Kelsey Davenport, "China Elevates
Nuclear Rocket Force," Arms Control Association, March 2016, available at <www.armscontrol.org/ACT/2016_03 /News/China-Elevates-Nuclear-Rocket-Force>.
The land surrounding Area 51 had hosted more than 1,000 nuclear tests and the attempted development of a
nuclear rocket engine.
To date, Recovery Act money has paid for the demolition of 50,000 square feet of structures at NNSS, including Pluto and facilities at other industrial sites involved in the former
nuclear rocket development program.
To the end of the solar system; the story of the
nuclear rocket, 2d ed.
Then you complete the mission by parachuting into an extinct volcano, confronting Mr Big and his white Persian cat, and saving the free world from a devastating
nuclear rocket launch.
In a news release, Kaku worries about the use of technologies that could "backfire," particularly the
nuclear rocket, "which is now seriously being reconsidered after being rightly rejected for the past several decades."
JOURNEY times to Mars could be cut from six months to six weeks using a
nuclear rocket being developed by NASA scientists.
After a 30-year shutdown of plans for the
nuclear rocket, the Bush administration has resuscitated the technology by giving NASA nearly $1 billion to expand space nuclear and propulsion research and development.
Right on the picturesque Baltic Sea shore lies a derelict and forgotten land of empty
nuclear rocket storehouses, bunkers and abandoned multi-storey houses, shaping the landscape of Karaosta, the former sealed military zone in Liepaja, Latvia.
nuclear rocket - a rocket engine in which a nuclear reactor is used to heat a propellant