Mars in just three months.The proposed spacecraft would be more powerful and twice as efficient as current machines, it is claimed.And it would carry a crew to the Red Planet in a third of the time it would currently take.The ship has been proposed by Ultra Safe Nuclear Technologies (USNC), a firm based in Seattle, US.It would have a nuclear thermal propulsion engine which would power it through space and burn less fuel, CNN reports.The shortest possible trip for an unmanned spacecraft to Mars is currently seven months and at least nine months for a crewed mission.But the longer it takes them to get there and the longer they stay, the more astronauts are put at risk.NASA has said it wants to get there faster to cut the amount of time.
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