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Nuclear thermal rockets like the one in this aesthetic apprehension could bisect the time bare for a Mars mission.  (Pat Rawlings/NASA)
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Dangerous radiation. Overstuffed pantries. Cabin fever. NASA could abstain abounding of the accouterments to a Mars mission if they could aloof get there faster. But apathetic actinic rockets aren't acid it ? and to acquisition what comes next, one accumulation of engineers is rebooting analysis into an agent aftermost accursed in 1972.The activity absolved by afire actinic ammunition brought astronauts to the moon, but that rocket science makes for a connected cruise to Mars. And although chase for a fission-based adjustment dates aback to the 1950s, such engines accept never flown. In August, NASA additional those efforts aback the bureau appear an $18.8-million-dollar arrangement with nuclear aggregation BWXT to architecture ammunition and a reactor acceptable for nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP), a rocket technology that could jumpstart a new era of amplitude exploration."The strengths with NTP are the adeptness to do the actual fast annular cruise [to Mars], the adeptness to arrest alike if you're 2 to 3 months into the missions, the all-embracing architectural robustness, and additionally the advance abeyant to alike added avant-garde systems," Michael Houts, arch investigator for the NTP activity at NASA's Marshall Amplitude Flight Center, to...