NASA wants “robust and enduring access throughout the solar system,” Turpin said, and nuclear power can deliver that. It can deliver more performance than the best chemical fuels, he said.

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion (NTP) is the preferred propulsion technology for manned missions throughout the solar system. The state-of-the-art NTP cycle is based on solid core Nuclear Engine for Rocket ...

SpaceX’s Elon Musk and Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck are among the entrepreneurs excited about nuclear-powered rockets, but neither company is developing the technology.

NASA and DARPA announced in 2023 that they were working on a nuclear thermal rocket ... is that as NASA and private space ventures eye returning to the Moon and our solar-system ...

In July 2019, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that NASA should begin researching a nuclear thermal rocket for fast transit around the solar system, and now Pulsar Fusion is working on just that.