NASA Developing Spacecraft Powered by Anti-Matter
Posted on Sat, 2006-04-15 22:01
Anti-matter is the strongest fuel known. To send humans to Mars would require tons of chemical fuel, where if anti-matter were used, just tens of milligrams of the stuff would be required. That's about 1/100th the weight of an M&M. The three big challenges are producing it, containing it during flight, and controlling the production of dangerous gamma rays during it's usage.
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