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Homer Hickam Speaks Out For Fission Rockets

Posted by michael on from the riding-the-torch dept.

jonerik writes: "Former NASA engineer Homer Hickam (perhaps best known for his 1998 memoir "Rocket Boys," which was turned into the 1999 motion picture "October Sky") has this article in Technology Review in which he advocates that the U.S. revive its nuclear rocket program of the '50s and '60s, arguing that nuclear-powered rockets are the only realistic way of opening up the rest of the solar system - particularly Mars - to human exploration."

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  1. An exercise for the reader by leonbrooks · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Once at the target star system, a Dyson sphere can be constructed around that star.

    Yup, just whip a handy-handy Sears Roebuck discount Dyson Sphere out of your back pocket, follow the directions, and you'll have your own private Dyson sphere in minutes, just like on the movies... no worries, mate! (-:
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    Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing