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For more information on James Webb, check out this week’s episode of Weekly Space Hangout with Lee Feinberg, who is NASA Optical Telescope Element Manager for the James Webb Space Telescope at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. A great interview with lots of amazing insights on JWST.NASA’s concept of a nuclear reactor for the Moon
When the Artemis program brings humans back to the Moon, they will eventually stay, building up a research station on the lunar surface. They will need a lot of power to heat and cool the station, run their experiments and communications, and generate oxygen from local materials. They can’t rely on solar energy since the Moon is in shadow for two weeks every month. NASA has paid three companies to develop plans for 40 kW fission reactors that could work on the surface of the Moon for ten years.