Four years from now, if all goes well, a nuclear-powered rocket engine will launch into space for the first time. The rocket itself will be conventional, but the payload boosted into orbit will be a different matter.

  • 6mementomori@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    ah yes, instead of using nuclear energy to power countries, we’re shooting the fuel into space