NASA partners with US defence department agency to develop a nuclear-powered rocket engine in preparation for sending astronauts to Mars
Artist concept of Demonstration for Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations spacecraft, which will demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine. Nuclear thermal propulsion technology could be used for future NASA crewed missions to Mars.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday that the US space agency will team up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to "develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027." DARPA is the Pentagon's research and development arm and has played a role in many of the notable innovations of the 20th century including the internet.
"DARPA and NASA have a long history of fruitful collaboration," DARPA director Stefanie Tompkins said, citing the Saturn V rocket that took the first astronauts to the Moon.
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