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Pastimes : The Case for Nuclear Energy
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (21)1/16/2001 9:41:13 PM
From: Tom Clarke   of 312
 
Wow - that's pretty wild. Sounds fairly speculative.

How about this - it actually seems doable, and soon. There's a blurb in the February issue of Wired magazine that talks about Plasma Rocket Engines. Quote from the magazine - "Nasa's projected 2018 Mars mission would ride a stream of superhot ionized hydrogen contained only by a magnetic field. Plasma power, which is being tested on a very small scale, would enable astronauts to reach Mars in 115 days, compared with the 10 months it would take traditional rockets."
spaceflight.nasa.gov

And as soon as we get to Mars we can start mining the asteroid belt!
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