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>Also, a comment was made that, even if TAU is passed by faster
>spacecraft, it will give valuable experience with its propulsion system.
>This is true only if nuclear ion engines are not a dead-end technology.
>I would think that radically different systems, such as nuclear pulse
>rockets, would be the long term choice (Hyde would say that long term =
>30 years).

Nuclear ion engines will certainly be a dead-end technology if we never
try to build one.  And if we always wait for the "better" thing that
will be around in only a few decades, we'll never get anything done,
'cause there will always be something else on the horizon.

       Mark
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