NASA's SNAP-10A, launched in 1965, was the only nuclear reactor the United States had previously deployed in space before current lunar plans.
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- Inside NASA's audacious plan to build a nuclear-powered ... (nationalgeographic.com)
- https://www.energy.gov/etec/articles/lasting-legacy-snap-program-laid-critical-groundwork-space-nuclear-power-systems (energy.gov)
- https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/non-power-nuclear-applications/transport/nuclear-reactors-for-space (world-nuclear.org)
- https://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/S/SNAP.html (daviddarling.info)
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