Nuclear-Powered Mars Rovers Planned in '09
NASA engineers are hopeful they can develop nuclear-powered long-distance Mars rovers for launch in 2009. But the agency's new space nuclear power initiative probably won't produce a nuclear-electric propulsion system in time to enable an earlier arrival at Pluto than the gravity-assisted trip...
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