NASA flying saucer set for test flight (No.. Really)

Fox News ^ | 6-3-2014 | Staff

[Turbopilot]

If you mean something like NERVA, it’s a fine idea once you’re already in space but not particularly useful to get there from here.

If you mean something like Orion nuclear pulse propulsion, that’ll work great for getting into space, but you’ll have a tiny PR problem with setting off a thousand nuclear warheads in the atmosphere to do it.

[Axenolith]

You’re still shooting something hot out the back end of a pointy thing...

[MaxMax]

Good grief, is the pilot Mr. Bean? I wouldn’t be near that flying wreck.

[kjam22]

Wait until it starts spinning like a turntable.....

[Talisker]

Wait until it starts spinning like a turntable.....

If it can generate an EM field, that might be the only way it can actually fly...

[Vaquero]

Goddard did not put anything into space. Neither did the Chinese who invented the solid fuel rocket which is also used to launch crafts into space.

Goddard was a genius and von Braun took all his knowledge to put the first man made object into space.

[Vaquero]

Nuclear. My favorite is project orion. BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM etc