[KevinDavis]

I'm going to try to join this project..

[KevinDavis]

For other space news go to: http://www.spacetoday.net
For a list of Private Space Companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_private_spaceflight_companies

[wally_bert]

Wasn’t this on one of Scud Stud Arthur Kent’s “Histories Mysteries”?

[GeronL]

Good luck getting that projected restarted.

Boom Town-
http://libertyfic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ongoingstory&action=display&thread=170

[Vaquero]

Freeman Dysons Orion is my all time favorite

[wastedyears]

I volunteer this for the hull art.

How are you going about joining this project?

[PIF]

First, an Orion ship could get around the "radioactice mess" business by using large solid fuel boosters to get off Earth.

Second, Orion could be assembled in orbit.

Third, Orion's propulsion would leave no "radioactice mess" in space which is filled radiation.

Fourth, a small Orion (10,000 metric ton payload) with a crew of 150 is big enough to never have to land anywhere using small 'conventionally' powered landers to ferry crew and materials to the surface.

Fifth, Orion could be build now, while the plused fusion idea has to wait until someone makes a working fusion reactor - decades or centuries from now.

The Orion concept is only dead in the US - China or Russia are free to recreate it should they choose.

But then the whole idea of manned space flight beyond low Earth orbit is pretty much dead in the US anyway.

Not to toll for hits but for those interested in more infomation on Orion, here is a collection of Orion videos and comments by Arthur Clarke and Freeman Dyson.

[GOPJ]

There’s no radiation with fusion - right? Wouldn’t that make it perfect for outerspace? No “wall” problem either...