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NASA to Research Antimatter Rocket

Posted by timothy on from the skeptical-until-it-blows-me-up dept.

Fraser Cain writes "One of the dozen technologies selected by NASA's Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) this year is Positronics Research's ideas for an antimatter rocket engine. Instead of 3100 kg of propellant on board Cassini, the spacecraft could get by with just 310 micrograms of electrons and positrons. Of course, making the antimatter can be expensive."

2 of 358 comments (clear)

  1. Already happened... by XanC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    When he sold out his impeachment vote for another ride in space.

  2. nasa web site sucks by cinnamon+colbert · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    if you go to nasa and use the search for "niac" the top few hits are dead links....way to go nasa
    eventually, you will wind up here, which is a one paragraph proposal.

    http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/abstracts/1 147Smith.pdf
    there does not seem to be more info available, even tho this is public money. totally inappropriate - that my tax dollars should be spent on ill described and secret research, the proposals for which are not even public.
    does this mean any wanker who can pen a paragraph that sounds good can get 50K