NASA's SR-1 Freedom mission targets a 2028 launch to Mars. See how this nuclear-powered spacecraft could unlock deep space ...

Interplanetary travel to Mars aboard nuclear-powered spaceships may sound like science fiction – yet NASA is planning to make it a reality. The Space Reactor-1 Freedom mission is scheduled for launch ...

The Museum of Flight will host a July 22 presentation with Dr. Roger Myers exploring nuclear electric propulsion, NASA's Mars ...

Nasa is developing ways to use nuclear power to send spacecraft to their destinations. Nuclear propulsion could greatly reduce the journey time to Mars, perhaps cutting a voyage of more than six ...

Human crews headed for Mars are still looking at journeys that last most of a year, long enough for radiation, boredom and mechanical risk to pile up. Nuclear propulsion promises to compress that ...

For years, nuclear propulsion sat in the same category as so many ambitious space ideas, impressive on paper, always a few steps away from reality. Now NASA says that changes in 2028. The agency plans ...

The future of American leadership in space will hinge on one factor: the ability to generate high power on orbit and on the surface of celestial bodies such as the moon. From a physics standpoint, ...

The U.S. has not flown a nuclear reactor in space since 1965, but that could change with the SR-1 Freedom mission. Credit: NASA Concept As part of its reboot of the Artemis exploration campaign, NASA ...

NASA's next mission sounds more like an Andy Weir space drama than a government project. Debuted at NASA's March 2026 'Ignition' event, the agency's first nuclear-powered mission to Mars now has a ...

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With NASA’s Artemis II—the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years—successfully completed, attention is now turning to what’s next: establishing an enduring presence on the moon. Through a ...