What If We Had Nuclear-Powered Rockets?

Not NASA but spaceX starship

OMG his voice is getting on my last nerves

hi what if but i wanna correct you nuclear thermal propulsion comes in 2 types nuclear fragment propulsion and nuclear thermal rocket and here both are good but nuclear thermal rocket can be used any where and is 1000 X better than our current chemical ones but its nuclear fragment rocket is which we cant use in earth as its gives out nuclear exhaust but in then nuclear thermal one its just heated coolant ( hydrogen ) going around the reactor getting heated and is given out so we can use it anywhere and also we dont need any oxygen so what if pls do complete research

Don't we ha- oh you mean to go to space

bruh that's a space-faring Minecraft flying machine

Like Gundam anime

Use a titanium ship

They would have to do it in space only

What If: You Nuked Nasa

It would take 7 months to get to Mars while it would take 3 months to get to Venus. It would take 4 years to get to Mercury. It would take 1 year to get to Ceres. It would take 5 years to get to Jupiter. It would take 7 years to get to Saturn. It would take 10 years to get to Uranus. It would take 12 years to get to Neptune. It would take 16 years to get to Pluto. And it would take 50 years to get to Eris. But that’s with just current technology.

Love the random nature of the video scenes.

We would be well on our way to colonizing Mars and exploring the moons of SATURN had we got those spaceships. Instead, we are still largely stuck here, in this soggy bucket of a dying planet, looking towards the stars that may now be forever beyond our reach.

Our future as an interplanetary civilization - if not our very survival as a species - had been derailed by shortsighted fools in office, and most people may never even know it.

I think NASA is just trying to get some credit, I mean they’re just getting the research to start development. While SpaceX is already testing the rocket.

Lol ksp

i want nuclear power rocket!

We can start fusion but can't stop it :(

Maybe if you ship it to the moon. The weight would not be an issue. You could build a Space station that would have it's own power source when landing on Mars. Then Launch it from the moon. Less fuel with more weight. Hope this helps someone. 🖖

They weren’t bombs, they were nuclear pulse units. Still Deffinetly the technology to go with. Simple, more or less inexpensive, available since 1950. Once we’re in space then we can monkey around with other propolsion systems

I find it very odd we did not develop nuclear powered rockets around the time we were trying to develop nuclear bombs.

can someone pls answer me this ?
is there potential for dirty bomb???
meaning, if these rival countries wanted to, could they take a sat or rocket out of orbit and make its trajectory to meet with a target??

What if we build this kind of rocket directly in orbit ? That would eliminate the risk of an incident on the launch site

Nuclear bombs going off in space isn't a big deal. The amount of radiation it would eject would be like throwing a pinch of sand onto a beach. There is already a ton of radiation out there. Take away the radiation issue, and it's no different from any other bomb. People really need to get rid of the irrational level of fear towards nuclear technology. It isn't perfect, but no technology is. Everything can be misused and cause harm in its own way.

in gta 3d we alredy use the detonation accelerator on tanks for hyperspeed

PROJECT ORIAN WAS A PROJECT TO CREATE A NUCLEAR-POWERED ROCKET BUT IT WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE PARTAL TEST BAN TREATY WHICH BANNED NUCLEAR POWER IN SPACE IN THE ATMOSPHERE AND UNDERWATER!

TRY READING THE WEBCOMIC FREEFALL A HARD SCI FI COMIC TOLD FROM TWO DIFFRENT NON-HUMAN POINTS OF VIEW !

Booms Booms are cool 🙂

Starship: well sh

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its a pulse engine

Robert Zubrin argues that you shouldn't try to get to Mars faster because it throws you off a free return trajectory. Instead, you improve safety by using the extra propulsion to increase your payload.

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😳👍🏻 🤷🏻‍♂️Well, what the f kind of thrust power to weight ratio vs. the required amount of plutonium or uranium would be needed to get to Mars in say, 1-3 days?

In the late 50s and 60s there were two projects, kiwi and nerva which were used to develop thermonuclear rocket engines. They were successful.

I think it will be more like 2050 to get to mars. You think we would go to the moon a few times before committing to the trip to mars?

Instead of uranium we should use thorium because one ton thorium= 35 tin uranium

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This is the best way to use this technology in constructive way rather than, wars shit.

Humans are not ready for this amount of Fun.

I'm willing to bet my home he is already lobbying and working on nukular propulsion

Excellence.

Nuclear Powered Rockets? Not great, not terrible. We need Warp engines!

They are not fast enough for me!!!!!!!!!!!

The moon has everything earth needs without the need of going further into space one step at a time

in the future, scientists should test the hydrogen fission propulsion engine in outer space (like ISS)... regulation to save the earth from the nuclear failure accident...

What If is so cool!!

If we have a nuclear rockets that goes to Moris there are used it in Russia against your cranium because we have administrations and the White House all fake and they don’t care about the humans they all sitting duck

Draco rocket.

if we as a species ever want to really go into space...we have to get over this fear of nuclear energy...it didnt have the best start...but as long as it is used with common sense its safe...

U used ksp the with stockfish Orion mod