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Between 1955 and 1973, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory attempted to build a reactor engine for space travel intended to carry astronauts beyond the moon. The Rover Program successfully produced three reactors suitable for flight testing, including one of the most powerful individual reactors ever built. Unfortunately, the proposed mission to Mars was canceled and the Rover Program along with it. Still, the Rover Program changed history. Listen as Alan Carr tells of the LANL program and its contributions.
Alan Carr serves as a program manager and the senior historian for Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his tenure as a laboratory historian, Carr produced several publications and lectures pertaining to the Manhattan Project, nuclear testing history, and the historical evolution of LANL. Carr completed his graduate studies at Texas Tech University.