Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin lands a Pentagon contract to design nuclear-powered spacecraft

Blue Origin to launch 'astronaut rehearsal' New Shepard test flight today. How to watch live.

DARPA has awarded contracts for the first phase of the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) program. The goal of the DRACO program is to demonstrate a nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) system above low Earth orbit in 2025. [General Atomics, Blue Origin, and Lockheed Martin]

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