Polywell mainstream(ish) news blip

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http://news.discovery.com/space/fusion- ... anets.html

The cold reality is that before the end of 2010 the last space shuttle mission will have flown -- completing three decades of milk runs back-and-forth to low Earth orbit. This comes as NASA re-evaluates its future after President Barack Obama –- acting under the gravitational pull of the ballooning federal deficit -- abandoned the U.S. plan to send astronauts back to the moon by 2020.

What didn't make news is a small item that just might eventually lay the real railroad tracks for human journeys to the planets.

A few months ago the U.S. Navy awarded $7.9 million in government stimulus funds to a small New Mexico R&D facility called EMC2 Fusion. The money is to go toward building a scaled-up version of a nuclear fusion reactor that would be small enough to loft into space.

Follows "IEC Fusion for dummies v5" imbedded from youtube.