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Space Nuclear Propulsion Office
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Space Nuclear Propulsion Office
The United States
Space Nuclear Propulsion Office
(
SNPO
) was created in 1961 in response to
NASA
Marshall Space Flight Center
's desire to explore the use of
nuclear thermal rockets
created by
Project Rover
in NASA
space exploration
activities. Because Project Rover fell under the aegis of the
Atomic Energy Commission
, a way had to be found for
NASA
and the AEC to share a large, expensive, classified program; specifically,
Los Alamos
was developing technology for NASA to use.
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