This eBook describes the physical principles behind the operation of the nuclear thermal rocket (NTR). It provides a brief history of the U.S. nuclear rocket program as undertaken between 1955 and 1973, and examines some of the future applications of nuclear thermal rockets possible in this century—especially in support of human expeditions to Mars and beyond.
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