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Mars in 45 days is now real inside NASA’s wild nuclear rocket plan
Mars has always felt like a distant neighbor, reachable only after a long, risky cruise through deep space. Now engineers inside NASA are sketching a very different future, one where a nuclear powered spacecraft could sprint to the red planet in roughly a month and a half instead of most of a year.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA fired up RS-25 engine No. 20001 at the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center at Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The test lasted about "eight-and-a-half minutes (500 ...