Another death is resurfacing amid renewed attention in what is becoming an alarming and disturbing pattern of “accidental” deaths involving America’s top nuclear and aerospace scientists. A 29-year-old NASA engineer specializing in nuclear propulsion technology was found burned beyond recognition inside his charred Tesla after a fiery single-vehicle crash in rural Alabama last July.
According to Fox News, Joshua LeBlanc was a rising star at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, the heart of America’s space and defense rocket programs. He specialized in nuclear propulsion technology, serving as team lead for NASA’s Space Nuclear Propulsion (SNP) Instrumentation and Control maturation and later on the high-stakes Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) project, a nuclear thermal propulsion engine designed to revolutionize travel to Mars and beyond.
