Journey to Mars in minutes Nasa is making nuclear rocket will test it in 2027 know about it

If the American space agency NASA seems to be most serious about any planet, it is Mars. The space agency has been sending missions to Mars for years to explore the possibilities of life there. NASA also wants to send astronauts to Mars in the future. Now NASA has revealed that it is building a nuclear-powered rocket that can send humans to Mars much faster than conventional rockets. Currently it takes 7 months to reach Mars.

According to reportsthe US space agency has partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Translunar Operations (DRACO) program. It will be tested in the year 2027. It is said that the nuclear-powered rocket that NASA is working on offers 10 thousand times higher thrust-to-weight ratio than electric propulsion.

To design DRACO, its team has planned to use the NTR (Nuclear Thermal Rocket) model and will also give a modern touch to the model. The NTR model is said to be about 50 years old. It is said that NASA has studied nuclear thermal propulsion for many decades.

It is said that this technology will be very effective for astronauts, because they will not have to travel for long periods of time. This will also reduce the cost of supply of food and cargo. NASA plans to send humans to Mars by 2030.

According to NASA Deputy Administrator and former astronaut Pam Melroy, if the space agency has fast travel for humans, then it will also be safe. He assured that the mission on which NASA is working will be very safe. The agency has been working on the NTR model for many years. This mission was first launched in 1961.