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Was not 2017 original plan? Orion is under development for more than 10 years now.
by qwerta 12y ago
Was not 2017 original plan? Orion is under development for more than 10 years now.
- seanflyon 12y agoOrion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft) not to be confused with Project Orion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...
- rational-future 12y agoIt's hard to take the non-nuclear Orion seriously, knowing it's a product of W Bush's "space initiative".
- lutusp 12y ago> It's hard to take the non-nuclear Orion seriously ... It might be a bit early to describe a booster as "non-nuclear" until there's a practical candidate in the nuclear category that meets with public approval. That would be like calling a coal-fired power plant non-fusion-based.
- rational-future 12y agoNASA had/has 2 Orions: a "nuclear" and a "non-nuclear" ;-)
- mikeash 12y agoOrion, as a spacecraft name, originally referred to the plan to build spacecraft propelled by pooping nuclear weapons out the back and exploding them behind a gigantic pusher plate. It may not have public approval, but it's quite practical (aside from the bit where you poison the planet and trash every piece of advanced electronics in a thousand-mile radius) and very well known among nerd circles, so it's worthwhile to disambiguate.