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NASA’s plutonium-238 supply crunch could limit future deep-space missions
A rare radioactive isotope stands between NASA and its next generation of deep-space exploration. Plutonium-238, the fuel that powers spacecraft venturing too far from the Sun for solar panels to work,
Boeing's biggest role in Project Artemis could soon be obsolete.
Faced with the imminent retirement of the International Space Station, NASA is pushing to speed up work on its potential replacements
Returning to the moon and building a base will pale in comparison to what we will be capable of accomplishing in the years ahead,” Isaacman said.
NASA administrator Jared Isaacman outlines plans for a permanent Moon base and nuclear-powered Mars missions as America competes with China in space exploration.
Visions of the Future poster for the “Grand Tour” of planets, a reference to when NASA’s Voyager mission used the once-every-175-year alignment of our solar system’s outer planets to stage its orbiter spacecraft. (courtesy JPL/NASA) Visions of the ...