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"Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.Anatoly Perminov first proposed building the ship at a government meeting Wednesday but didn't explain its purpose. President Dmitry Medvedev backed the project and urged the government to find the money.In remarks posted Thursday on his agency's Web site, Perminov said the nuclear spaceship should be used for human flights to Mars and other planets." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_sc/eu_russia_nuclear_spaceship
"Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.
Anatoly Perminov first proposed building the ship at a government meeting Wednesday but didn't explain its purpose. President Dmitry Medvedev backed the project and urged the government to find the money.
In remarks posted Thursday on his agency's Web site, Perminov said the nuclear spaceship should be used for human flights to Mars and other planets."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091029/ap_on_sc/eu_russia_nuclear_spaceship
While the Orion image is nice, It just sounds like they want to use a "real" nuclear reactor instead of a thermal generator to power ion or plasma drives.
Yes. they want to use it for powa. This is a true & tested way of using nuclear reactors.
See also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29/russian_nuke_spaceship/which has a link to "massive old NASA PDF"http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890013609_1989013609.pdf
See also
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29/russian_nuke_spaceship/
which has a link to "massive old NASA PDF"
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19890013609_1989013609.pdf
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