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Orion Project - 1958-1964 planned a long-range manned spacecraft powered by pulsed thermo-nuclear explosions. (H-bombs). Project carried out by Theodore Taylor; it was the brainchild of physicist Freeman Dyson.

http://www.daviddarling.info/encyclopedia/O/OrionProj.html

36 posted on 09/23/2005 5:38:52 PM PDT by edwin hubble

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oh yes... The project was cancelled. Considered risky.

37 posted on 09/23/2005 5:40:25 PM PDT by edwin hubble

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