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NASA wants US to be the first nation to put nuclear reactor on the moon

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy has directed the agency to fast-track plans to put a nuclear reactor on the moon.

NASA wants to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030. Choosing where is tricky

In a bold, strategic move for the U.S., acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy announced plans on Aug. 5, 2025, to build a ...
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South Korea's K-RadCube radiation satellite will hitch a ride on NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission

South Korea's KASA is just one international space agency that will fly cubesats on the mission; Germany's DLR will also ...

US should put nuclear reactors on moon before other countries do, acting NASA administrator says

Nuclear power on the moon is critical to the United States' space exploration and national security goals, acting NASA ...

NASA moon reactor directive, X-37B mission and Cargo Dragon launch | Space Beat

This week on Space Beat, Rob and Space reporter Brooke Edwards discuss the NASA directive to put a nuclear reactor on the ...
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Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars

The United States space agency has pioneered planetary science technologies as the world's leader in climate research for ...

NASA’s Webb Telescope spots a new moon orbiting Uranus

The discovery expands Uranus’s known family of satellites to 29, with the tiny moon measuring just 6 miles across. There’s a ...

Why on Earth would NASA build a nuclear reactor on the Moon?

In their report, Lal and Myers estimate it would cost about $800 million annually for five years to build and deploy a ...

Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on August 24, 2025

As of Sunday, Aug. 24, the moon phase is Waxing Crescent, and only 2% will be lit up to us on Earth, according to NASA's ...