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A starship, starcraft, or interstellar spacecraft is a theoretical spacecraft designed for traveling between planetary systems. The term is mostly found in science fiction. Reference to a "star-ship"
An updated version (NASA, 1999) of the Project Orion by the United States government (1958–1965). It was the earliest scaled project developing a concept for a spaceship with a propulsion, of fission pulses, that was to be capable to transport humans light years within hundreds of years instead of thousands.
Artist's conception of British Interplanetary Society's Project Daedalus (1978), a fusion powered interstellar probe
Artist's depiction of a hypothetical Wormhole Induction Propelled Spacecraft, based loosely on the 1994 "warp drive" paper of Miguel Alcubierre
The filming model of the 288.6 metres (947 ft) long starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from the Star Trek: The Original Series television show. The model was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in 1974, where it is on public display.
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
Starship
…There are very few scientific studies that investigate the issues in building a starship. Some examples of this include: Project Orion (1958–1965), mostly crewed interplanetary spacecraft Project Daedalus (1973–1978), uncrewed interstellar probe…
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