Pretty Exciting Stuff
“For 40 years, NASA has been doing planetary science in the same way. That is, you accelerate for 5 to 10 or 15-minutes and then you stop…and you coast, and you coast, and you coast. Occasionally, Jupiter will be just in the right spot and you can get a little slingshot effect…but it’s not always there. That’s not the way to do exploration. That’s exploring the west by going in covered wagons,” Weiler said.
NASA To Go Nuclear; Spaceflight Initiative Approved
http://www.space.com/news/nasa_nuclear_020205.html
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Funny thing, as I'm posting this, Elton Johns "Rocket Man" is playing on the radio next to me, SO COOL!!