Nuclear-powered rocket tests will begin as early as 2027. According to NASA, a nuclear-powered spacecraft will actually be much safer for crews, as counterintuitive as that sounds. It will (hopefully) reduce the time it takes for pilots to get to Mars, therefore reducing the overall risks to crew members during the flight. Still, the mission will take about two years for a round trip to the Red Planet, if NASA meets its goals.
The Saturn V rocket that carried astronauts to the moon in the 1960s used several hundred thousand gallons of both kerosene and liquid oxygen as fuel to get the rockets off the ground. NASA states that the DRACO project will use what’s called nuclear thermal propulsion technology instead. The heat from the nuclear reaction will ignite the liquid fuel that will then propel the spacecraft. Reportedly, it will be up to three times as fuel efficient than prior launch vehicles.
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