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A 123,000 MPH(198 000kmph) Nuclear Rocket Could Reach Mars in Only One Month. Costa Rica-based Ad Astra Rocket Company announced over the summer that it had completed a record 88-hour high power endurance test of its Vasimr VX-200SS plasma rocket at 80 kW


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