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Experts Ponder Nuclear Rockets To Send Humans To Mars
When NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the Martian surface last week, humans cheered from the confines of planet Earth. But if the space agency or others hope to leave and send astronauts to Mars, experts say they need to consider a technology that was studied decades ago but never fully developed: nuclear-powered rockets.
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This will give some people the heebeegeebees. Imagine a nuclear accident a mile in the sky, rather than on the coast of Japan.