On: SpaceX is launching an inflatable space habitat

[bosdev]

Are we sure a feasible tether/mass could handle the impulse of a nuclear explosion?

[neverminder → bosdev]

Pretty sure he had this in mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_thermal_rocket

[JoeAltmaier → neverminder]

My father-in-law worked on that in the 60's (project Rover). It got defunded for some reason, or we might have been to Mars in the last century...