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ttkciar t1_j5vzfc9 wrote

Reply to comment by me_too_999 in NASA to test nuclear thermal rocket engine for the first time in 50 years | CNN by dem676

Pretty sure they stopped it because Soviet and American diplomats agreed that would ease international tensions, without really understanding what they were talking about.

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me_too_999 t1_j5wok81 wrote

I still don't see fission powered jets at a commercial airport any time soon.

Maybe on Mars, in fact a fission rocket would good for 2nd stage payloads to the outer planets.

The future is fusion, and probably won't be any nuclear powered craft until then.

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