Project Orion Nuclear Propulsion - 1950s Tests | Unclassified Video

Monday, December 15, 2014 - 12:00 in Physics & Chemistry

Raw footage of early “nuclear pulse propulsion" tests aimed at inexpensive interplanetary travel; essentially nuclear bombs driving spacecraft via Newton’s laws. 1963’s Test Ban Treaty damped further experimentation.

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