Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, left, meets with NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden, right, before signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to renew and solidify interagency cooperation ensuring that space nuclear power technologies will be available to power future missions to our solar system and beyond, on Monday, October 31, 2016 at the Department of Energy Headquarters in Washington, DC. The MOU updates the prior agreement between DOE and NASA signed in 1991. Radioisotope power systems (RPS) have played a critical role in the exploration of space for more than 40
Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz, left, meets with NASA's Administrator Charles Bolden, right, before signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to renew and solidify interagency cooperation ensuring that space nuclear power technologies will be available to power future missions to our solar system and beyond, on Monday, October 31, 2016 at the Department of Energy Headquarters in Washington, DC. The MOU updates the prior agreement between DOE and NASA signed in 1991. Radioisotope power systems (RPS) have played a critical role in the exploration of space for more than 40 years. These pioneering missions have helped reveal the nature of Earth’s moon, provided views of icy geysers and sulfur volcanoes on moons of Saturn and Jupiter, and have given humanity its first views of the surface of Pluto. Aubrey Gemignani)
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