'Our goal now is to transition the technology into flight readiness,' former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang-Díaz told IE.
Humans haven't even reached Mars yet, but one former NASA Space Shuttle astronaut is already working to drastically reduce travel times to the red planet.
To make this ambitious goal a reality, the private space company is building a high-power electric propulsion engine called VASIMR that could one day power a nuclear electric rocket to Mars in as little as 45 days.
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