On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:41:27 -0700, "Bill Daniels"
wrote:


There would likely be little objection to nuclear reactors on the Moon since
it is pretty radioactive environment anyway. (It lies only 93 million space
miles away from the unshielded core of a thermonuclear reactor, i.e. the
Sun) Nuclear rockets (Google: "Project NERVA" or "Nuclear-Electric drive")
make manned Solar System exploration much more realistic.

Nerva? Nuclear electric? Call those rockets? Google "Project Orion".
That's what I call a rocket!

I wish we had gone for the Moon base instead of the ISS.

Me too.


Mike Borgelt