NASA's initiatives to pioneer next-generation space technologies are also hit hard in the White House's budget proposal. If ...

The DRACO project will test potentially revolutionary propulsion technology. NASA and the U.S. military plan to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Earth orbit in late 2025 or early 2026.

Oftentimes when somebody refers to a rocket, they're talking about one going into space, such as NASA's nuclear-powered Draco rocket, but that's not what we mean here. Rockets referred to here are ...

That efficiency can be used to reach extremely high speeds. DRACO is intended to be a test bed for rapid-response rockets between Earth and the Moon, a military deterrent in space. There's only ...

But even within the NTR family, there isn’t absolute certainty about what these rockets might look like in the near future. While DRACO was the standard-bearer for this technology, a new paper ...

There is no complete analysis of scaling up the supply chain. Angry Astronaut and NASA missed the problem of no facilities to test even the DRACO demonstration rocket. Angry Astronaut describes a ...