THE NEW SPACE RACE: NASA, DARPA to launch nuclear rocket to orbit by early 2026.

It’s not my nuclear Orion though. But that’s coming.

UPDATE: A reader emails:

Everybody in comments is missing the point on the DARPA program.

NASA isn’t doing this. Neither is DARPA. That’s where the money is coming from.

Lockheed Martin will do the craft, and my company, BWXT, is doing the reactor.

Yes, this is the new streamlined contracting approach.