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Introducing The Orion Project
The Orion Project - The Suppression
George Dyson: Let's take a nuclear-powered rocket to Saturn



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Project Orion
Project Orion: A Re-Imagining
Orion at Mars (v2)



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Project Orion was the first engineering design study of a spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion, an idea proposed first by Stanisaw Ulam during 1947. The project, initiated in 1958, envisioned the explosion of atomic bombs behind the craft and was led by Ted Taylor at General Atomics and physicist Freeman Dyson, who at Taylor's request took a year away from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton to work on the project.
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