Comments on: Project Orion: The Nuclear Spacecraft http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12618 Feel Smart Again Sun, 8 Nov 2009 21:49:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: James Bryant http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12618/comment-page-1#comment-154278 James Bryant Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:27:07 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12618#comment-154278 I was one of two illustrators assigned to the Orion Project in the early sixties, working on model 2, an eighty-foot diameter craft the size and shape of Mt. Palomar observatory. I was skeptical until I saw footage of scale model tests off Pt. Loma. Our job was to envision hypothetical scenes of the Orion being deployed in potential space exploration and produce full-color hand renderings (pre computer) for presentation purposes. Efforts to obtain copies of the work I did has hit a brick wall; everything from that period is still classified. I was one of two illustrators assigned to the Orion Project in the early sixties, working on model 2, an eighty-foot diameter craft the size and shape of Mt. Palomar observatory. I was skeptical until I saw footage of scale model tests off Pt. Loma. Our job was to envision hypothetical scenes of the Orion being deployed in potential space exploration and produce full-color hand renderings (pre computer) for presentation purposes. Efforts to obtain copies of the work I did has hit a brick wall; everything from that period is still classified.

]]> By: Chris Berman http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12618/comment-page-1#comment-117648 Chris Berman Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:40:00 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/12618#comment-117648 The Orion drive is one of the most efficent and least complex spacecraft drives one can imagine. I used this methodof propulsion in my novel, THE HIVE, as China attempts to beat a US/Russian/EU mission to an alien artifact that has been discovered inside the solar system. Chris Berman www.freewebs.com/chrisbfla The Orion drive is one of the most efficent and least complex spacecraft drives one can imagine. I used this methodof propulsion in my novel, THE HIVE, as China attempts to beat a US/Russian/EU mission to an alien artifact that has been discovered inside the solar system.

Chris Berman
http://www.freewebs.com/chrisbfla

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