The NASA Technical Reports Server has available a PDF format final
report on the ROVER program.

Also listed are other nuclear propulsion reports on the NTRS server
that are available in PDF format.


Rover Nuclear Rocket Engine Program - Overview of Rover Engine Tests -
Final Report 1991
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1992005899.pdf

Reactor in-flight test system. Volume 1: RIFT program summary - 1961
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1974074802.pdf


Nuclear Rocket Propulsion - 1962
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1963001636.pdf

Nuclear pulse space vehicle study. volume i- summary - 1964
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1965058729.pdf


Assembly and brazing of NERVA U-tube nozzles - 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1975068371.pdf


Nuclear pulse vehicle study - 1965
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1976065935.pdf


Nuclear pulse space vehicle study. Volume IV - Mission velocity
requirements and system comparisons - 1966
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1966072847.pdf


Nuclear pulse space vehicle study. Volume IV - Mission velocity
requirements and system comparisons /Supplement/ - 1966
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1966072846.pdf


Nuclear Rocket Technology Conference - 1966
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973061727.pdf


Nuclear criticality study of a specific vortex-stabilized gaseous
nuclear rocket engine - 1967
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1970073228.pdf


A method of predicting heat transfer coefficients in the cooling
passages of NERVA and Phoebus-2 rocket nozzles - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1968014393.pdf


Feasibility study of a tungsten water-moderated nuclear rocket. 1:
Summary report - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066825.pdf


Feasibility study of a tungsten water-moderated nuclear rocket. 2:
Fueled materials - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066826.pdf

Feasibility study of a tungsten water-moderated nuclear rocket. 3: Fuel
elements - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066827.pdf


Feasibility study of a tungsten water-moderated nuclear rocket. 4:
Neutronics - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066828.pdf


Feasibility study of a tungsten water-moderated nuclear rocket. 5:
Engine system - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066832.pdf


Feasibility study of a tungsten water-moderated nuclear rocket. 6: Feed
system and rotating machinery - 1968
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1972066829.pdf


Experimental investigations to simulate the thermal environment,
transparent walls, and propellant heating in a nuclear light bulb
engine - 1969
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1970002925.pdf


Status of nuclear flight system definition studies - 1971
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1979073697.pdf


Fluid dynamics computer programs for NERVA turbopump - 1972
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1973015943.pdf


Comparison of mission design options for manned Mars missions - 1986
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1994004168.pdf


Preliminary survey of 21st century civil mission applications of space
nuclear power - 1987
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1991005504.pdf


Comparison of Fusion/Antiproton Propulsion Systems for Interplanetary
Travel - 1987
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1996043322.pdf


Nuclear propulsion: A vital technology for the exploration of Mars and
the planets beyond - 1988
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1989001573.pdf


Manned Mars Explorer project: Guidelines for a manned mission to the
vicinity of Mars using Phobos as a staging outpost; schematic vehicle
designs considering chemical and nuclear electric propulsion - 1988
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1989008233.pdf


Nuclear technology and the space exploration missions - 1990
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1990013531.pdf


An historical perspective of the NERVA nuclear rocket engine technology
program - 1991
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1991017902.pdf

Nuclear Thermal Propulsion: A Joint NASA/DOE/DOD Workshop - 1991
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1992001870.pdf


Nuclear thermal propulsion transportation systems for lunar/Mars
exploration - 1992
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1993003175.pdf


The rationale/benefits of nuclear thermal rocket propulsion for NASA's
lunar space transportation system - 1994
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1995109268.pdf

Scoping calculations of power sources for nuclear electric propulsion -
1994
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1994029705.pdf


Conceptual Design of a Vapor Core Reactor Rocket Engine for Space
Propulsion - 1996
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/ca...1996043610.pdf
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