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stickmaker) wrote2006-07-23 09:29 am
stickmaker) wrote2006-07-23 09:29 am
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NASA At it Again
NASA has announced a new name for it's return to the Moon program: Project Orion.
The original Project Orion was a revolutionary and visionary concept of vast implications. Those working on it in the Sixties half-joked about sending a crew of a score or more to Saturn by the mid-Seventies. It was killed by politics.
To see NASA use the name of this noble and sabotaged effort for a blinkered and half-vast project is adding insult to the original injury of the cancellation.
The original Project Orion was a revolutionary and visionary concept of vast implications. Those working on it in the Sixties half-joked about sending a crew of a score or more to Saturn by the mid-Seventies. It was killed by politics.
To see NASA use the name of this noble and sabotaged effort for a blinkered and half-vast project is adding insult to the original injury of the cancellation.
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Have you read George Dyson's book Project Orion? It's definitely your kind of book!
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