A journey from Earth to Mars could soon take just 39 days, cutting current travel time nearly six times, a rocket scientist who has the ear of the US space agency NASA has said.
Former astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says reaching the Red Planet could be dramatically quicker using his high-tech VASIMR rocket -- now on track for lift-off after decades of development.
The Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket -- to give its full name -- is quick becoming a centerpiece of NASA's future strategy as it looks to private firms to help meet the astronomical costs of space exploration.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket for Defense
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I usually keep up with all things NASA but haven't heard of this. I really wish we would turn all our attention to getting to mars. If not I'll never get to see man set foot on the red planet.
The one time I'm mentioned without a drunken escapade attached, you spell my name wrong. Self whammy?
JP
Hilarious.
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