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NASA Report to Congress on Interstellar Space Travel Includes 36 Page Presentation of US Nuclear Partner MIFTI’s “Star Trek” Fusion Propulsion
NASA Report to Congress on Interstellar Space Travel Includes 36 Page Presentation of US Nuclear Partner MIFTI’s “Star Trek” Fusion Propulsion.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n Los Angeles, CA, June 16, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- US Nuclear is excited to announce that MIFTI-MIFTEC President and Chief Scientist, Dr. Hafiz Rahman, was invited by NASA to give a presentation on his fusion energy technology at the Tennessee Valley Advanced Interstellar Propulsion Workshop (TVIW) in Wichita, Kansas.  The workshop was requested by Congress with support from TVIW to explore the top technologies that can be used for deep space travel. Dr. Rahman’s 36-page presentation titled “Staged Z-Pinch, A Target for Fusion and Possible Source for Interstellar Propulsion” discusses MIFTI’s latest developments.   MIFTI’s fusion generators could become the standard propulsion system for space travel, and also have the potential to provide unlimited, low-cost, clean energy for the earth, moon bases, and planetary colonization.  Chemical powered rockets have taken humans to the moon, sent countless missions into earth’s orbit, and have even powered long-range missions inside and outside of our solar system, such as the Mars rovers and the Voyager probe launched in 1977 which is now in interstellar space. Speeds of almost 20,000 miles per hour seem fast and may have been adequate for traveling to the moon and even some nearby planets, but are far too slow and heavy with fuel to travel to more distant planets or the countless stars surrounding our solar system. Chemical powered rockets in use today carry tons of fuel. Fully fueled, the 3-stage Atlas V-541 rocket with the spacecraft can weigh 1 million pounds; 80% of that weight is fuel and the superstructure of the first and second stages that carry the fuel.  Conventional rockets also fire for a certain number of minutes to reach a given speed and then they mostly just float along for the rest of the journey. At a maximum speed of about 17,600 mph (about 28,300 kph), it would take the space shuttle about 165,000 years to reach Alpha Centauri. However, with fusion drive, the fuel is heavy hydrogen. One single gram can provide 1 Megawatt-hour, every day for a year, thus gradually accelerating the spacecraft to near light speed. Conventional rockets cannot build speed gradually since they would need to be constantly re-fueled along the way, and unfortunately, there are no gas stati...