Project Orion Testing
Project Orion Testing
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Friday, May 20, 2022
Nikola Tesla
I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men
Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than getting knowledge.
Testing for project Orion in the late 50’s using conventional explosives.
Project Orion was a proposed spacecraft that would use controlled nuclear explosions for propulsion.
10 minute video of the testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcidu6ppcFg
More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)#Vehicle_architecture
Wow, KSP sure has a long history.
Aaaaaaand here’s the TVTropes article on the subject
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OrionDrive
If only I had more upvotes to give. Where would we be today if it had gone into development? Colonies on Mars? Living in a nuclear winter? The mind reels.
Basically me after eating too much mexican…
Amazing project. We should have built it.