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Project Orion: unpublished documents |
Previously "classified"
documents related to Project Orion, the now-aborted plan to send
nuke-propelled spaceships to Mars and
other planets. Details in this
BoingBoing post and podcast.
Prior to this web upload on Flickr,
these documents had never before been
publicly released.
Tech historian George Dyson collected these papers, and he is the
author of "Project Orion," a book which chronicles the
project and the lives of the scientists
behind it -- including his own father,
Freeman Dyson.
The name "Project Orion" is now being used by NASA for a new project, this one not powered by nuclear bombs.
This time around, they're trademarking
the name.
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items are from between 01 Nov 2003 & 17 Oct 2006.