NASA, Nuclear Fission Reactor (research) and Space Travel

NASA has struggled for half-a-century to take a nuclear reactor from the drawing board into space. This year it successfully tested the first new n... (2018)

Tom Costello reports from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where NASA is developing nuclear rockets to take humans to the M... (2023)

NASA and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) have successfully demonstrated a new nuclear reactor power syst... (2018)

Initial tests in Nevada on a compact nuclear power system designed to sustain a long-duration NASA human mission on the inhospitable surface of Mar... (2018)

“Activity in cislunar space is expected to increase considerably in the coming years.” There are many ways to get around space, but most of them... (2020)