Project Orion
The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
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2002
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9267-0 (ISBN)
Allen Lane (Verlag)
978-0-7139-9267-0 (ISBN)
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In 1957, the US government sponsored a project - codename "Orion" - to develop a 40,000-ton manned spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs. This book tells the story of the author's father, Freeman Dyson, a brillaint mathematician, and member of the "Orion" team.
The race to the moon dominated space flight during the decade of the 1960s. Yet, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the US government sponsored a project that could possibly have sent 150 people on expeditions to Mars or Saturn. The codename of the project was "Orion", and it centered upon the effort to develop a 40,000-ton, fast, manoeuvrable, nuclear-powered space vehicle for long-range voyages in space. Strictly classified, Project Orion ultimately failed. In this book, George Dyson, son of physicist Freeman Dyson, one of the original project team, tells his father's story.
The race to the moon dominated space flight during the decade of the 1960s. Yet, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the US government sponsored a project that could possibly have sent 150 people on expeditions to Mars or Saturn. The codename of the project was "Orion", and it centered upon the effort to develop a 40,000-ton, fast, manoeuvrable, nuclear-powered space vehicle for long-range voyages in space. Strictly classified, Project Orion ultimately failed. In this book, George Dyson, son of physicist Freeman Dyson, one of the original project team, tells his father's story.
Preface - Bel Air; Sputnik; the world set free; Ulam's demon; general atomic; TRIGA; critical mass; QED; Lew Allen's balls; ARPA; Columbus; Noah's ark; free expansion of a gas; hotter than the sun, cooler than a bomb; C-4; Point Loma; engineers' dreams; Coca-Cola; Enceladus; deep space force; jackass flats; fallout; Huntsville; death of a project; 2001; the sun snarers; appendix -Project Orion technical reports, 1957-1965.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 6.6.2002 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Allen Lane Science S. |
| Zusatzinfo | illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 144 x 224 mm |
| Gewicht | 587 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie |
| Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7139-9267-0 / 0713992670 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7139-9267-0 / 9780713992670 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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