| 1. | NERVA NRX ( Nuclear Rocket Experimental ), started testing in September 1964.
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| 2. | The laboratory demonstrated the feasibility and value of nuclear rocket propulsion.
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| 3. | In 1955, Schreiber became the leader of the laboratory's nuclear rocket development division.
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| 4. | Sergeyev, a veteran of Russia's nuclear rocket forces, called Kvashnin's idea " insane ."
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| 5. | The nuclear rocket typically operates by passing hydrogen gas through a superheated nuclear core.
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| 6. | Despite many successful firings, American nuclear rockets did not fly before the space race ended.
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| 7. | The Condor Committee was formed at Los Alamos to consider possibilities for nuclear rocket propulsion.
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| 8. | That year, he became Technical Associate Director, with responsibility for the entire nuclear rocket propulsion program.
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| 9. | The United States scrapped work on nuclear rockets in the early 1970s because of safety concerns.
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| 10. | There's even talk of sending nuclear rockets to Mars, an idea that chills coalition coordinator Bruce Gagnon.
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