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NASA artist rendering, from 1999, of the Project Orion pulsed nuclear fission spacecraft. Project Orion was a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, [1] and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions behind the craft.
Project Orion was the first serious attempt to design a nuclear pulse rocket. A design was formed at General Atomics during the late 1950s and early 1960s, with the idea of reacting small directional nuclear explosives utilizing a variant of the Teller–Ulam two-stage bomb design against a large steel pusher plate attached to the spacecraft ...
Stanisław Marcin Ulam (Polish: [sta'ɲiswaf 'mart͡ɕin 'ulam]; 13 April 1909 – 13 May 1984) was a Polish mathematician, nuclear physicist and computer scientist. He participated in the Manhattan Project, originated the Teller–Ulam design of thermonuclear weapons, discovered the concept of the cellular automaton, invented the Monte Carlo method of computation, and suggested nuclear pulse ...
Charles Clark Loomis, (February 26, 1921 - July 14, 2011) was a mathematical physicist on Project Orion. Loomis joined General Atomics division of General Dynamics Corporation at the John Jay Hopkins Laboratory for Pure and Applied Science, San Diego, California.
In the book Citadel by John Ringo, an Orion Drive is used to upgrade the 9 km diameter Battlestation Troy into a mobile spaceship. In the Frontlines series by Marko Kloos , the only defense Earth has against an alien menace are the Orion Missiles, large pykrete projectiles powered with nuclear explosions from behind that push them towards their ...
His son George is a historian of science, [49] one of whose books is Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957–1965. [50] Dyson died on 28 February 2020 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center in Plainsboro Township, New Jersey, from complications following a fall. He was 96. [30] [51] [52] [53]
The claim: Project 2025 seeks to ban nearly 3,000 books over topics including 'female autonomy and independent thought' A Feb. 15 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) claims the conservative ...
His 2012 book Turing's Cathedral [4] has been described as "a creation myth of the digital universe." It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times 2012 Book Prize in the science and technology category [ 5 ] and was chosen by University of California Berkeley's annual "On the Same Page" program for the academic year 2013–14.