This is John Batchel. Conversation with A.J. Colhari of Astrox Corporation about a rocket that is powered by a nuclear power energy source.

The way it goes is it takes air in and heats it and then that turns into the thrust at the aft of the missile.

Russia has now successfully tested such a missile.

Borevznik, a cruise missile that can fly around the world with very little fuel, very low.

However, I learned from A.J. Colhari, this same method would work on planet Mars, even with its thin atmosphere.

Here he describes how.

All it needs is something to heat and make into thrust, and on Mars there's abundant carbon dioxide in the thin atmosphere.

AJ Colerre on the future of travel, flight on the planet Mars.

Well, a little off of it, say a thousand feet or so, where the air is thickest.

More of this tonight.

And it's flying on Mars.

Now, Mars has atmosphere.

It's mostly CO2.

But it's atmosphere.

We're not burning anything.

There's no combustion here.

So it doesn't matter if you don't have any, you know, oxygen or anything like that there.

But you have to have something.

You have to have something to heat that.

Basically, the idea is to heat something enough and propel it in the back so that it

becomes, you know, it creates stress.

You can do that on Mars.

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