A new era of space exploration is dawning through the application of nuclear energy for rovers on Mars and the Moon, power generation at future bases on the surfaces of both and soon for rockets that enable interplanetary travel.

• China
• Rosatom
• Russia
• Sodium
• Nuclear fission
• Oxygen
• Mars
• Gale (crater)
• Moon
• Curiosity (rover)
• Vacuum
• Rocket
• Jet engine
• Radar
• International Space Station
• Interplanetary spaceflight
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Spacecraft propulsion

Source: World Nuclear News

Date: Friday, 27 July 2012

Original article: world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Nuclear-a-stepping-stone-to-space-exploration

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