TV To Mars by A-bomb

[Ch3tan]

On BBC 4 now, iplayer it later if you can. It is about a secret US program, Orion, to man a mission to mars in a massive craft powered by atomic bombs for take off.

Absolute madness! The things people thought of during the cold war is great

 

[Moriath]

release a bomb every second and then calculate its power depending if the last was a dud or not lol

 

[old.Tohtori]

If people werent' so hellbent on saving the planet and killing eachother, we'd have colonized mars already

Yes, the oxymoron of my statement was intentional.

 

[Calaen]

Did I miss the thread about those nasa crashes discovering water? only stumbled upon it yesterday, I expect more manned missions there now.

 

[Lamp]

Quite interesting. After watching Dr Who I switched over to BBC4 and watched all the Mars programmes

 

[Jeros]

We have had the tech for years, sadly its "not viable"

cos it costs to much.......

*edit* cos the viewpoints of idiots is not releveant

 

[Thadius]

I think the US/USSR had actual plans to detonate nuclear bombs in early space programs.

Could be wrong though

 

[Zenith.UK]

I remember reading something YEARS ago about a project called Daedalus which was going to use controlled micro-nuke explosions.

In fact here's the wiki for it...
Project Daedalus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Thadius]

Project Orion (nuclear propulsion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia