Nuclear thermal rocket engine

Thu, 26 Jan 2023 07:30:00 +0000

This was posted to fediverse by NASA today, sounds like things are really moving in this area. What a period in history to study STEM and learn the skills to be part of this.

NASA @nasa@social.beachcom.org

We’re partnering with @DARPA to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space. This new engine would allow us to do more science and reach destinations faster—key steps for sending the first crewed mission to Mars. read more

There are opportunities for people in the Uk to be part of this, as it will require world wide expertise to do this.

Space careers UK

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#NASA,#Rocket,#Nuclear,#Exploration,#Mars,#SolarSystem

Documentary Series: JPL and the Space Age

Fri, 23 Dec 2022 07:30:00 +0000

Documentary Series: JPL and the Space Age

This was posted to Mastodon, I am sharing the link to a series on the JPL and the space age

Interesting series and hopefully there should be more episodes coming up

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#NASA,#Space,#Exploration,#JPL.#History

Ethics and space exploration

Tue, 16 Feb 2021 13:48:28 +0000

Ethics and space exploration

As humans start to venture back in to space with the view of returning to the Moon in 2024, then eventually moving on to Mars and beyond.

This paper [1] written Frank Tavars (from NASAs Ames Research Centre,) et al, raises some very interesting ideas on how we should about space exploration, but don't repeat our colonial mistakes we made on Earth.

Link [2] is the same link but using the paper code and the citation guide is below that.

Hopefully discussion and lead to some really useful feed back for NASA so as a human race we can move forward and explore space responsibly.

1 Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices

2 https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08344

arXiv:2010.08344 [astro-ph.IM]
(or arXiv:2010.08344v2 [astro-ph.IM] for this version)

I have also set up a Qoto Discourse Thread to discuss further.

Thanks to Derek Caelin for posting a link to this to both Mastodon and Twitter.

Also included a link to the Mumbai university astrobiology course as there is discussion on * Space Policy and Planetary Protection* which may be interesting.

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#Space,#NASA,#AMES,#Exploration,#Ethics #Moon,#Mars

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Nuclear thermal rocket engine

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Ethics and space exploration