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Inside Nuclear Propulsion

  • Atomic Space Propulsion and Power
  • Fred Haise extracts the fuel element for the Apollo 13 SNAP-26 RTGWill Anyone Recover Apollo 13’s Plutonium?
  • Illustration of a Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (Credits: US Department of Energy).Energy Resources for Space Missions
  • Artist’s conception of a nuclear pulse powered spacecraft. Credits: Rhys Taylor - www.rhysy.netWater and Bombs
  • NASA Will Pay the Entire Cost of Pu-238 Production
  • Flying to Mars on a Fusion Rocket
  • Nuclear Engine Prototype Test Successful
  • Plutonium Production Restart Prepared
  • Nuclear Space Propulsion Breakthrough from Russia
  • Russia is Developing a Nuclear Space Engine by 2017
  • The Quest For Better Propulsion
  • US Pu-238 Production Remains Unfunded
  • Will NASA Ever Recover Apollo 13′s Plutonium From the Sea?
  • Infographic: Atomic Batteries for Deep Space Missions
  • Safety of Nuclear Powered Missions
  • NASA Urges Resuming Plutonium-238 Production
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Browse The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

  • Evidence of foam loss preceding the disastrous Shuttle Columbia reentry (Credits: NASA)How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
  • Remembering Columbia
  • Learning from Columbia
  • Remnants of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, stored in the RLV hangar at Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA).Organizational Factors of the Columbia Disaster
  • The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety
  • Columbia And The Day of Remembrance
  • Sixteen Minutes from Home
  • STS-107: Columbia's Lost Crew
  • Columbia debris reconstructionTimeline of the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia Disaster Recommended Reading
  • Sacriflight by Lloyd Behrendt, commemorates Columbia's last launchColumbia Disaster Creative Works
  • The Columbia Disaster In Perspective
  • A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
  • According to CAIB, destruction of the crew module took place over a period of 24 seconds, beginning at an altitude of approximately 42,672m and ending at 32,000m (Credits: NASA).Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia streaking over the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico (Credits: NASA).Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
  • Columbia debris reconstructionLiving with Columbia: Interview with Mike Cianilli
  • Remembering the Columbia Crew, One Day at a Time
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