Lasers on the moon? Nuclear rockets? NASA awards millions for way-out tech

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Lasers on the moon? Nuclear rockets? NASA awards millions for way-out tech

Ultra Safe Nuclear Corp. – Technologies, Seattle: Designing a scalable, ultra-high-temperature facility for testing material properties and evaluating performance, specialized for space nuclear reactor core and fuel components. Last month, USNC-Tech received a separate grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program to look into building a compact spacecraft for studying interstellar objects.

https://www.geekwire.com/2021/lasers-moon-nuclear-rockets-nasa-awards-millions-way-tech-support/