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‘HELICAL ENGINE’ FOR INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL WITH NO PROPELLANT , NASA ENGINEER SUGGESTS .
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‘HELICAL ENGINE’ FOR INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL WITH NO PROPELLANT , NASA ENGINEER SUGGESTS .

An architect who works for NASA has advanced a proposition for another approach to go through interstellar space—a "helical engine" that could, possibly, drive a rocket forward without the requirement for any fuel whatsoever. David Burns, from NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, introduced his thought on the space organization's Technical Reports Server, which gives access to archives identifying with aviation that were made or financed by NASA, including gatherings, diary papers, reports and licenses, among others. Consumes' examination, which they subsidized himself, is depicted as an "attempt to define an in-space propulsion engine that does not expend propellant." They says they knows about the traps of the work, saying the thought is a psychological study and even the "basic...