FUNKY GREEN: For 50 Years Now, the U.S. Has Had a Nuclear Reactor Orbiting in Space

Saturday, 4 April 2015

For 50 Years Now, the U.S. Has Had a Nuclear Reactor Orbiting in Space

Exactly half a century ago this week, a rocket shot off from the California coast. It carried the U.S.’s first and only (known) space nuclear reactor, SNAP-10A, which has been circling the Earth ever since and will continue to circle for another 3,000 years.