NERVA
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The Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application was an American nuclear thermal rocket engine development program that ran for roughly two decades. Its principal objective was to "establish a techno
NERVA XE in ETS-1
Engine maintenance assembly and disassembly (E-MAD) facility
President John F. Kennedy (right) visits the Nuclear Rocket Development Station on 8 December 1962 with Harold Finger (left) and Glenn Seaborg (behind)
The High Energy Rocket Engine Research Facility (B-1) (left) and Nuclear Rocket Dynamics and Control Facility (B-3) (right) at NASA's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio, were constructed in the early 1960s to test full-scale liquid hydrogen fuel systems in simulated altitude conditions.
Project Rover
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Project Rover was a United States project to develop a nuclear-thermal rocket that ran from 1955 to 1973 at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory. It began as a United States Air Force project to devel
NERVA
…Propulsion Office (SNPO) until the program ended in January 1973. SNPO was led by NASA's Harold Finger and AEC's Milton Klein. NERVA had its origins in Project Rover, an AEC research project at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory (LASL) with the initial aim of providing a nuclear-powered upper stage for the United…
Kiwi A Prime on test stand
President John F. Kennedy (right) visits the Nuclear Rocket Development Station. To the left of the president are Glenn Seaborg, Chairman of the US Atomic Energy Commission; Senator Howard Cannon; Harold Finger, manager of the Space Nuclear Propulsion Office; and Alvin C. Graves, director of test activities at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory.
Raemer Schreiber with a Project Rover poster in 1959
The Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Norris Bradbury (left), in front of the Kiwi B4-A reactor