Tweeted from Space Fellowship: (1/11/10)."Russia earmarks $17 mln to research nuclear-propelled spacecraft http://su.pr/31wQew"
This a very interesting development. It makes perfect sense for them to compete in this way. And we are all in this together now, and deeply interdependent.MOSCOW, (RIA Novosti) – The Russian government will allocate 500 million rubles ($16.7 million) in 2010 on a project to build a spaceship with a nuclear engine.
In line with an order issued by the Cabinet on December 29, a total of 430 million rubles ($14.4 mln) will be given to the Rosatom state nuclear corporation, and the rest to the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos.
Roscosmos head Anatoly Perminov said in late December that Russia would launch research into nuclear engines for spaceships this year.
He said nuclear engines for spaceships were a very promising area and should be created to make flights to Mars and other planets. . .