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Following today's Columbia Space shuttle tragedy, I questioned how this tragedy might affect President Bush's recently reported Prometheus Project, which was suspected of reinvigorating the 'NERVA' concept, first proposed in the 1950's, but canceled in the late 1960's due to "excessive development costs." The NERVA engine "would not use nuclear fission as a propulsive mechanism per-se, but rather would expel super-heated hydrogen, flowing through a nuclear fission reactor, as an ultra-high-speed exhaust." In a January 17 story, the Los Angeles Times quoted Sean O'Keefe, the current head of NASA,suggesting that the President plans to tacitly announce an aggressive plan ultimately designed to send humans to Mars" in the then upcoming State of the Union Address. How does the Slashdot crowd think this second shuttle disaster might influence President Bush's plans to use these alternative sources of energy to send human's to Mars?
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Following today's Columbia Space shuttle tragedy, I questioned how this tragedy might affect President Bush's recently reported Prometheus Project, which was suspected of reinvigorating the 'NERVA' concept, first proposed in the 1950's, but canceled in the late 1960's due to "excessive development costs." The NERVA engine "would not use nuclear fission as a propulsive mechanism per-se, but rather would expel super-heated hydrogen, flowing through a nuclear fission reactor, as an ultra-high-speed exhaust."
In a January 17 story, the Los Angeles Times quoted Sean O'Keefe, the current head of NASA,suggesting that the President plans to tacitly announce an aggressive plan ultimately designed to send humans to Mars" in the then upcoming State of the Union Address.
How does the Slashdot crowd think this second shuttle disaster might influence President Bush's plans to use these alternative sources of energy to send human's to Mars?