Lawnmowers to Alpha Centauri

sturd

PR Addict
Minding my own business reading WSJ this evening when I spot:
"The joint venture has also turned to Roush Fenway Racing, a specialist in Nascar racing cars, to develop a lawnmower-size internal combustion engine to power the upper stage of the rocket in space, allowing missions such as repairing satellites or building the infrastructure for deep-space exploration."

http://www.wsj.com/articles/boeing-...able-engine-for-satellite-launches-1428958267

Lawnmowing from Epsilon Eridani to Alpha Centauri!
 
I'm sure politicians would rather vote on something to shut this down and to move forward in developing something that will charge itself off the vaccuum of space, or solar energy. Wait.....that's not powerful enough? No way.
 
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