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Re:The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation (2012) by ytturbed on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @12:17PM (#8557682)
I was addressing the statement 'Currently, all our human rated rocket engines use chemical reactions', and I agreed with it. But it's not good enough if you consider the lengthy design cycle of propulsion systems. We ought to be creating additional designs which assume that fusion sources of various sizes and masses will be available.

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