NASA’s INSANE Nuclear Rocket to Visit Mars IN DAYS

NASA’s INSANE Nuclear Rocket to Visit Mars IN DAYS.
traveling to Mars isn’t going to be easy. There’s a reason why humans have never explored the red planet, while only a few lucky and expensive landers have. The trip to and from Mars is long, dangerous, and more challenging than any space mission humans have ever undertaken so far.

There are plenty of challenges lurking in the deep reaches of space that make a journey to Mars oh so difficult. For one, humans just aren’t used to being in space for so long. A roundtrip mission to Mars would last an astonishing 21 months: nine months to get there, three months on the planet, and another nine to get back.

Every single second spent traveling to Mars can be easily translated into energy, fuel, and money. It will cost thousands of dollars a second just to get to the red planet. When you think of it that way, and when you think of the damage that all that time in deep space can do to a human body, you understand the fear and hesitation some have when thinking of traveling to other planets.

But what if there were a faster way to get there? What if a trip to Mars didn’t have to take a whopping 21 months? What if all that time - and money - could be saved by a much shorter and safer voyage?


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[johnharbone]

Great stuff but don't forget its ok to travel at these speeds but it will take just as long to slow down once having reached the destination.

[pauljmeyer]

An ion engine and engines like it while accelerating to very high velocities take time to do so and remember they'll also take time to reduce velocity so maybe they may not be so much faster. Maximum velocity before halfway then the rest is deceleration while a conventional rocket will quickly reach an operational speed then coast to its deceleration point where it reduces its velocity rapidly. If more powerful long-range engines were developed there would be a bonus of g-force for a human crew.

[theephemeralglade]

"You're doing fine, Jim. You're just gonna have to stay crouched behind that small block of lead for another, oh... 5 weeks. Haha! Going right all the way!"
"Oh shut up."

[terryjohnson]

Put all three together and that will be one hell of an engine

[bjmgraphics]

I love it! I think a ship should have at least two types of propulsion complement each others thrust. One engine is fastened the other engine is slow and steady going faster. But what about a lunar base to launch the ship instead of wasting fuel to leave the Earth? A shuttle to the moon and from the moon to Mars might cut cost down as the ship is build and assembled in near zero G. A landing shuttle will actually land on Mars and then takeoff to reunite with the ship.Mars gravity is less than the Earths.

[monowarachowdhury]

*NASA AND SPACE-X FOR THE WINS!!!*
*LETS GOOO AND MAY GOD BLESS THEM SO THAT THEY CAN CONTINUE THESE TYPES OF WORK!!!!*
🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[animered]

if we manage to get to these high speeds, would something as small as sand in space shred the spaceship? Or they hit something the size of a pebble.

[joeytime]

Get there fast, yes. But what about all the energy required to sustain life? Small thorium reactor. THORIUM

[hoytwood]

Scotty: The check engine lite is on again Captain!

[taemien]

There is a bit of a limitation of acceleration. You only wish to go about 1G or 9.8m/s/s. Going faster means you have high G stress on the human body. This means going to Mars will take 2-4 days and no less. Another thing to take into account is doubling acceleration (in this case 2G) will NOT halve the transit time, but takes significant amounts of energy.

[johnclarke]

I still think we should set up shop on the moon first. Why don't we have a rover on the moon? You could almost drive it in real time. Mars is great but we could learn a lot more by a base on the moon. It would also be a lot cheaper too. However, there might be reasons why Mars is a better destination. Just my thoughts on the matter.

[redcrusader]

I would like to know where you got the 39 days trip on a ion engine. Because in it's current state, ionic propulsion is the slowest of all. With a ionic engine you would need way more than 9 month to reach mars. However it is also the most efficient if them all, it would need less reaction mass than any other engine. That's why we use it to propulse probes around the solar system for decades rather than manned spaceship.

[ryancazares]

Awesome...!!!!

Love this video and the topic at hand

Awesome

[scottslotterbeck]

Nuclear rockets and ion engines have been researched for 70 years. My father worked on Nuclear rockets in the 70s.

[tommerwhite]

I shouldn’t not have smoked that whole join before watching this……haaaa

[joelweisberg]

I'll wait to book my trip to Mars until I know there's some good restaurants up there.

[richardwatts]

YES, MORE POWER, MORE POWER, MORE POWER.BOOM

[TgamerBio]

We really need artificial gravity get further then Mars

[davidspencer]

The only way to make photonic drives works with Items of mass is to either a whole lot of power (moon full) or for us to start controlling mass.