Moving from chemical impulse powered rockets of the last half-century of space flight to new nuclear reactor powered space vehicles may be the new daring mission for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in this decade. A new multi-billion dollar program known as Project Prometheus is in the policy works within NASA and the White House. It is designed to kick the space program in to a proverbial “warp-drive” and put humans on the face of Mars by 2011