US military eyes nuclear thermal rocket for missions in Earth-moon space

[Admin]

DARPA just awarded a $14 million task order that will support a program called Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations.

US military eyes nuclear thermal rocket for missions in Earth-moon space : Read more

 

[newtons_laws]

At last! Nuclear Thermal Rockets could have been in use years ago if the work of the successful NERVA program in the 1960s had been continued. Of course Von Braun envisaged using nuclear thermal rockets in his plans for a manned Mars mission.

 

[just_some_dude]

Do they really need a fast rocket just to be "aware" of what is happening between the earth and moon?