Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
mk · 3543 days ago · link · · parent · post: Questions about Nasa's 'impossible' space drive answered
This drive would significantly reduce the risk to humans, so it definitely lowers the blue curve on that graph. Whether or not the difference buys us enough time, I don't know. It will probably be a few years before this technology is tested in space, and at least several more before it could be part of a manned-mission to Mars. Those robots will change a lot in the next decade.