Thursday, April 24, 2003

-NASA’s Strategic Plan” * Military * Nuclear

At all of our peril, O’Keefe is moving to expand NASA’s program of using nuclear power in space—including reviving the decades-old notion of building nuclear-powered spacecraft. What if the Columbia shuttle had been nuclear-powered? Nuclear debris would have spread over Texas and Louisiana. Still, two days after the Columbia tragedy, NASA advanced its new $3 billion space nuclear program, Project Prometheus. It is being pushed despite the development of new safe space energy systems, including solar-electric propulsion and solar sails.”

http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0417-07.htm