Riding 4 Nuclear Bombs Per Second into Space - Project Orion

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At the core of Project Orion was the idea to place atomic bombs at the tail of a spaceship to blast it into space for interplanetary and interstellar travel. Of the project, physicist Freeman Dyson, who worked on the program extensively, wrote for Quanta Magazine: [QUOTE] “So we would launch the ship into space — bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb — going up about four bombs per second...”

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