PROJECT ORION: THE ATOMIC SPACESHIP 1957-1965

by George Dyson

$50 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London : Allen Lane The Penguin Press, 2002 . Octavo, pp. i-x xi xii xiii-xv xvi-xviii 1-345 346-350: blank , illustrations, boards. First UK edition. A history of Project Orion, a study conducted in the 1950s and 1960s by the United States Air Force, DARPA, and NASA into the viability of a nuclear pulse spaceship that would be directly propelled by a series of atomic explosions, written by the son of one of the

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