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NASA Makes Warp Drive Reality

NASA tests warp drive

NASA is quietly claiming to have successfully tested a revolutionary new means of propulsion that could one day allow for such speeds as to make a trip to the moon take as little as 4 hours.

The technology is based on the electromagnetic drive, or EM drive, which in theory is able to covert electrical energy into thrust without the use of propellant (rocket fuel). This should be impossible as it violates the conservation of momentum, which states that the momentum of a system is constant if there are no external forces acting on the system- which is why propellant is required for traditional rockets.

NASA did not immediately respond when CNET made a request for comment, but they reached out to Paul March, the engineer who has been working on the EM drive at JSC and sharing some of his results on the NASA SpaceFlight forum said that his work at Eagleworks is simply a “continuation” of his “work tackling the fundamental problem that has been hindering manned spaceflight from the termination of the Apollo moon program.”

My work at Eagleworks (the lab at JSC where the EM drive is being tested) is just a continuation of my work tackling the fundamental problem that has been hindering manned spaceflight from the termination of the Apollo moon program. That being the availability of a robust and cost-effective power and propulsion technology that can break us loose from the shackles of the rocket equation.

The Daily Mail reports that multiple teams of researches from the United States, UK and China have demonstrated EMDrive over the past few decades, but their results have been controversial as no one has been exactly sure how it works.

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