The Martian
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Watney mentions that Hermes spacecraft is powered by ion engines. These engines use ____ and a nuclear reactor to accelerate.
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The thing is, it doesn't take much reactant mass, so a little Argon (and a nuclear reactor to power things) let us accelerate constantly the whole way there.
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