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Re: Fission Rocket Propulsion Revisited
I would gladly make the 6 year round trip just to avoid Norm's posts. Where
do I sign up.
K Bittner
>From: JPreisig@AOL.COM
>Reply-To: JPreisig@AOL.COM
>To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
>Subject: Fission Rocket Propulsion Revisited
>Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:22:25 EST
>
>Hello All,
>
> This is from JPreisig@aol.com . Happy Holidays.
>
> The topic of fission based propulsion was examined in earlier
>radsafe
>postings (Please see the archives). A recent posting suggested that NASA
>is entertaining the possibility of putting a (manned???) spacecraft to Mars
>with a (chemically driven) one-way transit time of 6 months to 3 years.
>Let's be serious. Even a Soviet cosmonaut is not going to sit in such a
>spacecraft for 3 Years (???) for a one week visit on Mars, and then a three
>year trip back.
>
> Fission driven spacecraft offer the possibility of making this trip
>in
>one
>or two weeks (one way). Let's get this technology developed, and build
>two or three fission-based spacecraft. If it works to Mars, then perhaps
>we
>can go other places.
>
> Again, Best Wishes for the Holidays!!!!!
>
> J. R.
>Preisig,
>Ph.D.
>
>
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