Nuclear rockets revisited?

[AntennaGuy]

See
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-earth-mar ... clear.html
Note: Not to be confused with:

[notFritzArgelander]

What could possibly go wrong?

[GCoyote]

I would like to see further development of this concept which would take a nuclear reactor to power.
http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR

[notFritzArgelander]

I would like to see further development of this concept which would take a nuclear reactor to power.
http://www.adastrarocket.com/aarc/VASIMR

This is much more interesting than nukes!

[helicon]

I hope there will be some future with nuclear rockets, but I imagine it will take time to develop the technology and guarantee safety.

[Chich]

As long as they build it and fire it up in orbit. Project Orion from the cold war was a scary proposal.

Then there was SLAM, which would have been able to fly for weeks or months at a time. Not able to work in space but cool in a freaky 50's kind of way. If only it didn't have that nasty potential to poison everything it flew over.

Ah, such simple times when anything was possible and damned the safety features

But the ideas were workable and technology is much more advanced. Sounds like they may be on to something.

[notFritzArgelander]

Launch from Earth is hazardous. Building in space is more interesting.

[Gfamily]

With the Tintin books having been written in the 50s, their propulsion was by Nuclear Power