NASA to test plasma engine on space station
Flight Global: NASA expects to sign an agreement to test a new propulsion system on the International Space Station, according to the US space agency's administrator Michael Griffin.
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The Vasimir engine is a real world advanced propulsion technology that, being many times more efficient than conventional chemical rockets, can potentially open up the entire planetary solar system for manned space flight.
This fact could open the way for feasible manned missions to Mars, some of the moons of the gas giant planets, and even out to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud objects.
The Vasimir engine is a revolutionary technology that is real and testable and so one cannot underestimate its importance.
Posted by: James M. Essig | August 8, 2008 3:53 PM