Magnetoplasma Rocket

This is so exciting. The vasimr engine. The new generation of rockets that will enable humanity to finally achieve the multi planetary colonization. Faster and cheaper space transportation.
https://www.youtube.com/attribution_link?a=O9khbvxOYYo&u=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTiZuG9K_xso%26feature%3Dplayer_embedded
Since the 1970s, starting at MIT and then for 25 years at NASA, astronaut Franklin Chang Díaz and his team of scientists have worked to develop a faster prop...