Well, PK-5000 just could be a schematics invented by dumb magazine illustrator. Anyway, I agree that GA Orion was million light years ahead of this in terms of engineering development.
BTW, was Orion publicly known in 1962?
And the details of a nuclear pulse unit bomb
Could you imagine an Orion spaceship functioning in the high terrestrial atmosphere (above 50-60 km?) ; at the time of the prevention of atmospheric nuclear explosions (1962)!
Seconded. Most fascinating part is near the end, 1963-65. When Dyson and Ted Taylor try to gets Orion rescued by NASA only to be rebuked by Milton Klein and Harold Finger pushing their own nuclear space engine: NERVA.
At this moment they "shrink" Orion to 10 m diameter so that it fits the...
Robunos,
Do you have G. Dyson's "Project Orion" book. Do you recommend it?. I'm interested on knowing more about that project and was considering to order it from amazon. Are the Battleship Orion versions described on that book?.
Thanks in advance,
Antonio
The Apollo CM was also unstable below M2 so it used its' RCS thrusters to keep it stable till the drogue-parachutes deployed, it would be the same thing for the Orion CM.
There were several proposal
One was the "Jackass Flats" as Launch site for a ground Start Orion.
Other was to launch from platform in middle of Pacific.
Later they switch to lofter concept were Rocket stage carry the Orion 80 km hight were the engine start up.
Here Kennedy Space Center and...
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