China has repeatedly stunned the U.S. intelligence community with rapid progress in its space exploration program. Their advances have established that a new space race is on between Washington and Beijing this time with the ultimate goal of sending a crewed mission to Mars.
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Engineers at the Energy Department’s Idaho National Laboratory are leading a nationwide team of scientists to enhance the capabilities of nuclear thermal propulsion, a technology that NASA hopes will cut the travel time to Mars by half.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas likes to think of himself as the space senator — and as the top Republican appropriator for NASA in the Senate, he is