me_too_999 t1_j5wok81 wrote
Reply to comment by ttkciar in NASA to test nuclear thermal rocket engine for the first time in 50 years | CNN by dem676
I still don't see fission powered jets at a commercial airport any time soon.
Maybe on Mars, in fact a fission rocket would good for 2nd stage payloads to the outer planets.
The future is fusion, and probably won't be any nuclear powered craft until then.
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