Maybe not, but this short video sure paints a picture. I hope someone gets to see it!
That line delivered by Sagan at the end is SO POETIC! ‘Those other worlds orbit the Sun. Silently, waiting.’ It was writing like that which drew me every week to Cosmos.
By 1974 manned missions above LEO died. What we see today is a lame attempt to recreate something we already did. Surely, the new Orion is exciting with lots of bells and whistles, but it is essentilally a place holder for maintaining skills which would otherwise be lost. This latest effort will only last as long as there is political will to do so, then it will die again.
There is only one technology we have currently which is efficient and workable for human space exploration: Nuclear. And that is the one technology we are not permitted to use. You do the math.
The First Orion:
These ships - which is what they would have been - could carry a crew of 20 to the hundreds, depending on the size of the ship. In fact, the bigger the ship, the better it would have preformed.
Each ship would be able to generate artificial gravity during the voyage. Radiation would have been absorbed by the water shield around crew accessible areas - showers could be taken every day with no water restrictions - so massive were these ships.
In the videos, each of the launch rockets were either Saturn 5 engines or equivalents. While it does not show in the videos, course correction would have been done by small thrusters.
The design of the 'bombs' to be used is still classified, as they were exceedingly small. No usage of them until well clear of Earth's upper atmosphere.