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Originally Posted by Amaranthus
Project Orion was for interstellar travel. A fission-powered electric thrust engine would be sufficient for Mars travel.
Not sure what you mean about CO2 being a dud GHG. Venus says otherwise...
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Hi Barry,
In those more innocent times, when they were mucking around with the nuclear devices - they had plans for making nuclear spaceships to take off from the earth and do a quick trip to Saturn and back - punching right through directly to it, no need for all the mucking around picking up energy from looping around planets.
Regards,
Renato
P.S. - I just remembered, the original intent of Project Orion wasn't to discover a means of space travel off the earth and to the stars, that was just a happy by-product. The original purpose was to develop a launch platform that flew to over the USSR to deliver 5000 nuclear weapons in one hit. One has to admire mankind's ingenuity.