The Fusion Driven Rocket

[josephpalazzo]

NASA hopes this will cut the trip to Mars to 90 days.

http://spirit.as.utexas.edu/~fiso/telec ... -25-13.pdf

[Solitary]

This is great, but I'm no volunteering for Mars duty anytime soon.  8-[  Solitary

[stromboli]

Somebody or other has been touting nuclear aircraft and rockets since the end of WW2. Hope they finally succeed. A fusion reactor in operation would be awesome.

[Jason78]

More importantly, when will this be a mod for Kerbal Space Program?

[Colanth]

This would be great - unless they go with the lowest bidder, in which case it might be a 90 second Earth-orbit-to-plasma trip.