Nuclear Reactors — in Space? Really?

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NASA just announced the first 18 members of the Artemis team; the astronauts who may, if all goes well, go back to the moon (not all of them).

One name on the list stuck out to me. Well, several did, but in this case it was the person’s specialty that jumped out.

Her name is Kayla Barron, and she is making an unusual shift in profession…from the deeps to the void, as it…