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Nuclear Fission to Power : Future NASA and DARPA Missions to Mars

 Nuclear Fission will power NASA’s prominent future missions and DARPA missions to Mars. The United States plans to test a spacecraft engine powered by nuclear fission by 2007 as part of a long-term NASA effort to demonstrate more efficient methods of propelling astronauts to Mars in the future, the space agency’s chief said on Tuesday. ...