NASA and its partners have successfully tested a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) fuel that could revolutionize deep-space ...

Could nuclear propulsion be the breakthrough that takes humans to Mars more efficiently? This deep dive explores the ...

NASA and General Atomics tested the fuel by exposing it to temperatures up to 3,000 Kelvin (4,940 Fahrenheit or 2,727 Celsius ...

NASA is working on a groundbreaking nuclear electric propulsion system that could dramatically speed up trips to Mars. The ...

A new type of nuclear thermal propulsion reactor fuel has been successfully tested at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, with hopes that the fuel could take humans to Mars in the not-too ...

The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP ... The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, were deemed a success.

Present-day spaceships, no matter if they're meant to carry people or not, are powered either by solar energy or chemical fuel, or a combination of the two. But if we are to expand humankind's ...

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has successfully tested the nuclear fuel that may one day propel and power the spacecraft ... this is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system ...

The DARPA-NASA nuclear thermal propulsion project is extending its ... a spokesperson at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, tells Aviation Week. While “cost-effective ...

COLORADO SPRINGS and LOS ANGELES—Long-term U.S. goals to develop technology for in-space nuclear propulsion have taken ... tests at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

NASA and General Atomics successfully tested nuclear fuel for faster, more efficient space travel, pushing Mars missions forward.

The best candidate is the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) system ... The tests, carried out at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, were deemed a success. NTP was first ...