Project Orion Reborn.
Posted by Wayne Smith. on Feb 06, 2004 at 06:35
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Orion is one of the great "what if's" of the twentieth century. Today, nuclear powered spaceships seem like little more than laughably naive 1950's science fiction, but it might have been otherwise...and still could be. Orion was the code name of a project aimed at discovering the feasibility of spaceships driven by nuclear bombs.
The initial plan called for manned missions to Mars by 1965 and Saturn by 1970. After seven years of work, the project's technical challenges seemed surmountable, but political obstacles brought the effort to a halt.
Perhaps it's time to revisit the past and revive the space age.
Re: Project Orion Reborn. Uncle Al 06/2 13:23
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