Here is an interesting development that quite a few of you shared with me: NASA's development of a pinched plasma fusion engine: Engine in development could cut Mars travel time to three months The reasoning behind the development is indicated by the title of the article itself: such an engine would cut travel time to our nearest most interesting celestial neighbor, Mars, by better than a half, thus also tremendously reducing the engineering problems of sustaining a human crew for a journey that could take 16-18 months using currently available technologies. But I want to draw your … [Read more...]