Re: Atomic Hydrogen Rockets

"forex10@xxxxxxxxx" <forex10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:1152810689.744622.101270@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Hello,
With all of the papers written by NASA & others regarding the
feasability of using atomic hydrogen as a rocket & jet fuel, why has
no one made functioning prototype? It seems it would be fairly easy to
construct even a small demo model compaired to building other types of
rocket motors, but no one has that I know of.

Since there don't appear to be any practical methods of safely storing
atomic hydrogen in usefully large quantities, I think that answers your
question. It's not unlike antimatter; great idea in principle and
damned hard in practice.

What NASA papers are you referring to? Links?

--Damon

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