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NASA will send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars before 2029

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NASA announced it will send Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028 carrying a fleet of small helicopters, while a coalition launched to mobilize $1 billion into engineering human cryosleep for space travel.

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Reporting date: 2026-03-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to March 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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NASA scraps the lunar gateway for a south pole base

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NASA will send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars before 2029
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Reporting date: 2026-03-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-03-29-a-nuclear-spacecraft-to-mars-by-2028
Claim: NASA announced it will send Space Reactor-1 Freedom, the first nuclear-powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028 carrying a fleet of small helicopters, while a coalition launched to mobilize $1 billion into engineering human cryosleep for space travel.
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- Welcome to March 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-march-29-2026
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