...way and concentrating on perfecting the worker's paradise at home.
The policies that led to "MAD" were purely American and at the time Orion was being contemplated, said policies weren't in place yet.
The Orion battleship would've been the ultimate deterrent, it is completely unpremptable...
The single known image of the design meant to shuttle crews to and from the Orion "Battleship."
Further discussion and reconstruction: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5167
for me : orion, pluto, and X-20, please !
you got also Gemini Spacecraft, I take it
for Orion in issue 4 of APR
has it some info about Sowjet Version of Orion ?
or it only US Orion...
Hi everybody
THANKS ! Thanks a lot for answering my questions !
Michel and Orionblamblam
Great ! Super !
Here are some USAF Orion designs
Are these designs realistic ? (for a Space-Battleship)
http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/orion/index.html...
Hi everybody
THANKS for the very GREAT drawing ! Orionblamblam
Is there an existing drawing of the Orion "Battleship"
or was it only a wood model ?
Was this Orion "Battleship" also a 4000-ton vehicle ?
(? Any dimensions of the Orion-Battleship known ?)
What was the task of the...
I am looking for information on Project Orion/Daedalus[British name for roughly the same thing]
this was an early nuclear powered spacecraft that used focused nuclear explosions for thrust.
air defense command
british interplanetary society
cold war
deep space probes
general atomics
great britain
nasa
nuclear battlefield
nuclear rockets
space age
space race
space weapons
strategic air command
united states
united states air force
Sea Dragon and Orion are great if you already have them, or have the time to develop them. Two years? We might be bending metal on the first prototype Sea Dragon, we'd be nowhere on the Orion.
There's a 40-odd page whitepaper that I believe provides more detail behind the briefing charts:
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/ssc/Orion/Toolkit/OrionAsteroidMissionWhitePaperAug2010.pdf
General Atomic consider the "Jackass Flats" as Launch site for a ground Start Orion
Ironic later AEC tested there NERVA engines here.
Also consider General Atomic Orion launch from swimming platforms
For most Lofter proposal (USAF) and Orbital assembly Orion (NASA)
consider existing launch...
The announcement in the original post led to an ESA-NASA agreement where ESA supplies an ATV-derived service module for the Orion capsule.
Orion is being developed for long-duration trips, while the Commercial Crew (CCtCap) contracts are for short-duration ISS ferry flights. It is unlikely...
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