At the height of the Cold War, US Air Force officials proposed a terrifying plan to help America demonstrate its superiority over the Soviet Union: detonating a nuclear bomb on the Moon.
Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down ...
In 1965, four years before Neil Armstrong even set foot on the Moon, the SNAP-10A became the first and only US ...
Nuclear power is moving from science fiction concept to engineering requirement for a permanent human foothold on the Moon. NASA and the US Department of Energy are working on compact fission systems ...
NASA has its sights on something that sounds like science fiction: building a nuclear reactor on the moon. The space agency says its gearing up to offer contracts to companies to begin developing the ...
The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.