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The future is nuclear.

T-Minus Space Daily

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Nuclear engines are three to five times more powerful than existing chemical propulsion systems. They could drastically reduce the transit time for long-distance destinations like the Moon or Mars. The major downsides of nuclear engines, historically, is that they were difficult and risky to make. Lockheed Martin has been tapped by DARPA to develop this demonstration spacecraft.

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