Opening the Next Frontier
by Anthony Tate

Part 14: Conclusions


Decades ago, we thought of the way to get into space in a big way, but our technology then was only really able to build chemical rockets. Today, we have much better technology and much more experience with nuclear power and space travel. We can use the experiments and tests of the past to build powerful, safe nuclear rockets today that not only give us incredible access to space, but also gets rid of nuclear waste!

So, when you read about nuclear power in space, be excited by the idea. It is the key to a future so bright we can hardly even imagine it today, no more than the people who sent Columbus on his way could imagine what his three little ships would begin.

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Contents:

1: The Frontier Spirit

2: What went wrong.

3: Where do we go next?

4: So, why aren't we going?

5: Dealing with the Devil

6: A brief technical interlude

7: So how good is Nuclear, anyway?

8: Heat, temperature, and cooling.

9: But isn't this dangerous?

10: Prometheus would be proud of us.

11: Ok, that all sounds nice, but this is just fantasy, right?

12: But isn't this just too big?

13: But doesn't this thing make nuclear waste?

14: Conclusions