The spy satellite the russians crashed in northern Canada back in the '70's had a nuke plant. Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 09:33, Jeremy Fowler wrote: > > >>As far as energy - They already have small (under 300 MWe) nuclear reactors >>available. However, you might have some international political problems with >>putting a nuclear powered space craft into orbit. So far no such device (known >>to the public anyway) has been put into space. > > > Actually, there have been a number of reactor-powered spacecraft, > including skylab if I'm not mistaken. Not sure about Mir. > > > > -- A marble traveling at 22,000 miles per hour would strike with as much force as a 400-pound safe traveling at just 60 miles per hour.