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And for the ego factor: the nuclear-pulse powered megaship in my forthcoming The Machinery of Light.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010
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I suspect what Klaatu was referring to was the 1960s NASA Project Orion, a nuclear-pulse rocket powered by nuclear fission proposal.
Response to Griffin Transition Team Comments - NASA Watch 2008
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I suspect what Klaatu was referring to was the 1960s NASA Project Orion, a nuclear-pulse rocket powered by nuclear fission proposal.
Response to Griffin Transition Team Comments - NASA Watch 2008
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Project Orion is a nuclear-pulse system-a kind of atomic analog of the wartime V-2 or buzz - bomb.
Tin 2010
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It seemed an exciting idea to show a nuclear-pulse system in action, and a number of design studies were made of it; but after a week or so Stanley decided that putt-putting away from Earth at the rate of twenty atom bombs per minute was just a little too comic.
Tin 2010
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It seemed an exciting idea to show a nuclear-pulse system in action, and a number of design studies were made of it; but after a week or so Stanley decided that putt-putting away from Earth at the rate of twenty atom bombs per minute was just a little too comic.
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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Project Orion is a nuclear-pulse system-a kind of atomic analog of the wartime V-2 or buzz - bomb.
The Lost Worlds of 2001 Clarke, Arthur C. 1972
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