NASA officials visit Energy Dept facility building nuclear engine for 2028 Mars SkyFall mission

SkyFall helicopter deployment. Click for original animation. NASA officials, including administrator Jared Isaacman, visited the Department of Energy s (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on August 7, 2026, to review the status of its work building the nuclear electric propulsion engine that will be used to send the agency s proposed three-helicopter SkyFall mission to Mars in 2028, dubbed…