This book presents a fundamentally different way of thinking about the
space program and the role of nuclear rockets in it, arguing they
require an infrastructure to become truly effective, an infrastructure
that democratizes it and opens space up to the common man. That must be
the goal of a reconstituted program, not some kind of mission and not
some scramble to a lunar base or manned mission to Mars. Those will
come later, when conditions on earth are ripe for them, when all
citizens can participate in their funding and profit from the conduct.
Indeed, with a nuclear rocket, all citizens now can have personal
access to space through a "free launch" program. The inevitable result
of this would be massive amounts of cheap clean, energy from space.