Project Rover/NERVA, the US nuclear rocket development program from 1955 to 1973, offers powerful and compelling lessons for today's effort. In this paper I consider ten political and technical lessons that can facilitate its swifter development and perhaps easier acceptance within NASA, the space community and the public. If they are ignored, muddled and conflicting objectives may result that become easy targets for those opposed to space spending in general or nuclear rockets in particular.
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