“While atomic age design was centered on the conquering of ... “You could watch rockets taking off live on TV, so it really brought space travel to the forefront, which gradually eclipsed ...

Nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) has stood as a promising potential alternative propulsion technology for decades. Chemical ...

The man spent six hours a day, six days a week to create one bizarre, yet unique red rocket camper with an atomic age inspired design. Guernsey was in the middle of a trip to several villages ...

Gosse’s proposal calls for a bimodal design based on a solid core NERVA reactor that would provide a specific impulse (I sp) of 900 seconds, twice the current performance of chemical rockets.

but a single soldier outfitted in combat gear worthy of the Atomic Age. That soldier was Sergeant First Class Ben Sawicki and, for a few fleeting hours, he represented the Army’s vision of the ...

A nuclear-based electric propulsion (NEP) could potentially overcome these limitations and launch space missions into a new age, enabling ... ‘Sunbird’ nuclear rocket to reach Mars in half ...