President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday threw his weight behind a proposal to build a nuclear-powered space ship and give Russia an edge in the space race.
Perminov described the proposed nuclear-powered spaceship as a "unique breakthrough project," but offered few details.
ship will have a megawatt-class nuclear reactor, as opposed to small nuclear reactors that powered previous Soviet satellites
We never talk about using them for earth-to-orbit launch,…. "The way they have always talked about it in NASA missions is for use in deep space."
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