Artist's concept of DRACO.
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—NASA and DARPA will collaborate to develop and demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in Earth orbit as soon as 2027, the agencies say. The technology is intended to reduce the transit time for human expeditions and science missions to Mars and other deep space destinations as well as...
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