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NASA targets 2028 launch of nuclear-powered craft with Mars helicopters

NASA is preparing to launch a nuclear-powered spacecraft toward Mars in 2028, a mission that would carry next-generation ...

NASA charts course to a permanent lunar outpost and a nuclear‑propelled Mars vehicle

The updated exploration plan details surface habitat concepts, cargo and power infrastructure, and a nuclear thermal propulsion pathfinder for crewed deep-space transit.

NASA's '1st nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft' will send Skyfall helicopters to Mars in 2028

NASA plans to launch its first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft in 2028, a probe called Space Reactor-1 Freedom that ...
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NASA Pivots Artemis Program Toward Building Permanent Base on the Moon

The agency has outlined a three-phase plan for lunar infrastructure and says the effort will serve as a proving ground for ...
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NASA Selects University Finalists for Technology Concepts Competition

NASA selected 14 university teams from across the nation as finalists in the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – ...

NASA announces 'near‑impossible' space plans, including $20B moon base and humanity's first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft

NASA's Gateway lunar space station won't launch next year in new changes to the Artemis program, which include ramping up ...