To win the race to Mars, NASA is prepared to go nuclear



Tom Costello reports from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where NASA is developing nuclear rockets to take humans to the Moon and beyond.

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24 thoughts on “To win the race to Mars, NASA is prepared to go nuclear”

  1. Why do the Americans always consider others as adverseries? Did China or Russia or any other power bomb America ever? Rather, America has bombed Japan, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Korea, Chile, Yugoslavia and so on.

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  2. Is one concerned that if this nuclear rocket is involved in an explosion on the launchpad or re entry the ramifications would be severe.

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  3. the fact we blast off from the ground shows how primitive we are still, they should be trying to take off from the ground like a plane safely then blast into space

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