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Re:NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars by BAReF00t on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:01PM (#21093386)
The moon's dust contains huge amounts of helium-3.

Which apparently is an amazing power source.

Also, why fission? We do have working fusion reactors. They are called hydrogen bombs. (The outer part, at least.) As long as you can keep the G forces low ...

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Re:NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars by JumpCrisscross on Friday September 27, 2019 @01:06PM (#21093992)
> Which apparently is an amazing power source

Theoretically, for reactors we don't have.

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