Saturday, April 4, 2015

For 50 Years Now, the U.S. Has Had a Nuclear Reactor Orbiting in Space


Exactly half a century ago this week, a rocket shot off from the California coast. It carried the U.S.’s first and only (known) space nuclear reactor, SNAP-10A, which has been circling the Earth ever since and will continue to circle for another 3,000 years.


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