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HERE IS NASA'S PLAN FOR NUKING GATEWAY AND SENDING IT TO MARS

arstechnica.com9 min read

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NASA announced on Tuesday that it will pause work on a lunar space station and focus instead on building a surface base on the Moon. The agency has spent close to $4.5 billion on developing technology for the Gateway program since its beginning in 2019. There are pieces of the space station undergoing construction and testing in factories around the world. NASA plans to repurpose the core of Gateway, the Power and Propulsion Element, into a nuclear propulsion demo. It will use the nuclear engine in the interplanetary SR-1 mission scheduled before the end of 2028.