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Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars
Forbes ^
| Oct 29 08:01 AM US/Eastern
| VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Posted on 10/29/2009 7:07:52 AM PDT by tricky_k_1972
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Well good for them, I hope they actually build the thing, at least someone would have the b@lls to fight that anti nuke crowd and build something that can actually get us somewhere.
To: tricky_k_1972
I’m all for this, as long as Putin is on the first flight OUT. ;)
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:08:32 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: tricky_k_1972
Well, there won’t be any US spacecraft in the way...thanks to the bumbling bureaucrats at NASA.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:11:42 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
("Don't fire unless fired upon, but it they mean to have a war, let it begin here." J Parker, 1775)
To: KevinDavis
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:11:50 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com .... I am a rogue nobody. One of millions.)
To: tricky_k_1972
Yes this is true but perhaps they may succeed in granting Congresswoman Lee’s wish and get a couple of photos of the American Flag that she thought was planted there from earlier missions!
To: tricky_k_1972
Our nation used to attempt great things like this.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:13:06 AM PDT
by
AD from SpringBay
(We deserve the government we allow.)
To: tricky_k_1972
It's the only way to travel in deep space within our technological capability. Anything beyond the moon that takes more than about three months puts humans into the four percent probability of "Radiation Exposure Induced Death" over the course of a lifetime. That's the outside limit NASA has today.
If you want to go to Mars (and return safely to the Earth) you need to get there and back a whole lot faster than the 900 day round trip needed for chemical rockets.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:14:10 AM PDT
by
Prospero
(non est ad astra mollis e terris via)
To: tricky_k_1972
Actuall article was pulled from
Suntimes
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:14:40 AM PDT
by
tricky_k_1972
(Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
To: tricky_k_1972
I tend to agree. let them do the early work and testing, then we can use the technology and make it better.
However, any accident that spreads radiation will pretty much kill any further nuke ships for a very long time.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:21:36 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: tricky_k_1972
I thought the real problem always in the past was the actual weight of a small nuke engine...
To: tricky_k_1972
Once again, the left proves that the real reason for opposing nuclear power in America is to collapse our economy. It is OK with them if every country on the planet has nuclear power, except America.
CRICKETS!
This could also be a front for more disturbing Russian plans, but don’t expect the Boy King to do a thing to hamper them in any way(other than give away our missile shield program). Russia is spitting in Obama’s face and he doesn’t seem to care.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:24:21 AM PDT
by
penelopesire
("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
To: tricky_k_1972
In this months Popular Mechanics they have a prototype of an ION engine they say can travel to Mars in 39 days.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:25:29 AM PDT
by
edcoil
(If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
To: Prospero
Agreed. Time in space is a major issue. Personally I’ve turned toward the feeling that propulsion research should be our focus for now.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:25:53 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: luckybogey
The problem is not weight, the Russians have actually launched small nuclear reactors for satellites,
Cosmos.
The problem with nuclear reactors in space has been, at least with the Russians, design and reliability.
Though the Russians have the most experience with the technology of actual space reactors, we in the US, and to some extent the Japanese and South Africans, have more reliable small reactors.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:45:57 AM PDT
by
tricky_k_1972
(Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
To: tricky_k_1972
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:49:03 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
To: edcoil
I like the Ion engine for unmanned probes or unmanned supply vehicles, but for human flight I would prefer a design that utilizes straight nuclear propulsion or nuclear thermal, with it, unlike Ion propulsion you can boost at 1 gravity for the entire flight except at turn around, this eliminates the hazards associated with weightlessness in space and shortens travel time.
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:53:15 AM PDT
by
tricky_k_1972
(Putting on Tinfoil hat and heading for the bomb shelter.)
To: tricky_k_1972
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posted on
10/29/2009 7:53:38 AM PDT
by
Jagermonster
(They will not force us. They will stop degrading us. They will not control us. We will be victorious)
To: cripplecreek
"I tend to agree. let them do the early work and testing, then we can use the technology and make it better." The US already has the technology sitting on the shelf. It's called NERVA, and was developed in the late 1960-70 time frame before the antinuke greens contaminated politics.
To: AD from SpringBay
Sad ain't it. :(
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posted on
10/29/2009 8:11:38 AM PDT
by
MotorCityBuck
(Page 73, Johnson, Navin)
To: Redleg Duke
The US is sinking into socialism while the Russians go for Mars.
Thirty years ago I'd have thought it would be the opposite.
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