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Old 13-April-2006, 11:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Romanus

7.) Advanced propulsion methods outside of ion propulsion (solar sails, nuclear thermal, VASIMR, etc.) will still be woefully understudied and underfunded.
That is a good set of predictions, Romanus. In the 1960’s, nuclear thermal looked like the future for the early 21st century. It always strikes me as curious, how research in this field was abandoned.
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