NTP Design Derivatives and Enhancements for Lunar and Mars Missions

'2001: A Space Odyssey' revisited - The feasibility of 24 hour commuter flights to the moon using NTR propulsion with LUNOX afterburners

Stanley K. Borowski, Leonard Dudzinski, Stanley K. Borowski et al. · 33rd Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit · 1997 · 29 citations · Full text

Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Nuclear Engineering +16

A feasibility study on low-enriched uranium fuel for nuclear thermal rockets – I: Reactivity potential

Paolo Venneri, Yonghee Kim · Progress in Nuclear Energy · 2015 · 23 citations

Engineering, Nuclear Engineering, Physics +17

Enabling Multiple Abort Strategies Using the NTP Approach for Human Mars Missions

Claude R. Joyner, Timothy S. Kokan, Daniel J. Levack et al. · AIAA SPACE and Astronautics Forum and Exposition · 2017 · 20 citations

Computing, Autonomous Systems, Path Planning +6

Comparing Low Enriched Fuel to Highly Enriched Fuel for use in Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Systems

Vishal R. Patel, Micheal Eades, Paolo Venneri et al. · 52nd AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference · 2016 · 11 citations

Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear Engineering +16