Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series
NASA artist rendering, from 1999, of the Project Orion pulsed nuclear fission spacecraft
Frederick Reines, early 1950s, photo from Los Alamos
Freeman Dyson in 2005
Ted Taylor in 1965
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Nuclear pulse propulsion or external pulsed plasma propulsion is a hypothetical method of spacecraft propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust. It originated as Project Orion with support fro
Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
…Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft. Following preliminary ideas in the 1940s and a classified…
Concept graphic of a fusion-driven rocket powered spacecraft arriving at Mars