The American space agency NASA wants to develop nuclear-powered rockets for Mars. This would significantly reduce the flight time to the red planet.
Together with the US Department of Defense, the US space agency Nasa wants to develop nuclear-powered rockets for Mars, which should be designed and tested by 2027, NASA said on Tuesday.
This technology, which has also been tested before, uses a special nuclear reactor to generate extremely high temperatures, which are then fed into a fuel. The nuclear booster could then be used for future manned missions to Mars and would significantly reduce flight times, he said.