Nuclear rockets High-performance propulsion for Mars.

Nuclear rockets [electronic resource] : High-performance propulsion for Mars.

A new impetus to manned Mars exploration was introduced by President Bush in his Space Exploration Initiative. This has led, in turn, to a renewed interest in high-thrust nuclear thermal rocket propulsion (NTP). The purpose of this report is to give a brief tutorial introduction to NTP and provide a...

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Corporate Author: Los Alamos National Laboratory (Researcher)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Dept. of Energy ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy, 1994.
Subjects:
Design.
Space Flight.
Space Propulsion Reactors.
Rockets.
Exploration.
Research Programs.
Rocket Engines.
Mars Planet.
Engineering.
Specific Nuclear Reactors And Associated Plants.

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