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To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion
2003 · Film · documentary · 60 min
Directed by Christopher Sykes
Top scientists want to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and the planets.
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To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion. Inspiring by the sheer grandiosity of the task, the will, and the ingenuity to tackle it. Back in the 1950s, while a trip to the Earth Moon was still just science fiction stuff, those guys were planning to go as far as Saturn in a couple of decades, riding nukes. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1039992/
>Project Orion
There is an excellent 2003 BBC documentary on Orion, "To Mars by A-Bomb" watchable here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4k_YZAXSEI
It features Arthur C Clarke, George and Freeman Dyson, and a number of other luminaries.