Before we landed on the Moon, in the early days of the Cold War, Project Orion contemplated using Nuclear Bombs to power spaceships to new worlds and stars. More than half a century later ...

A nuclear-powered spaceship designed for interstellar travel and warfare? Discover the incredible story of Project Orion, the USAF's attempt to build a real-life Star Trek battleship. What End of ...

Could interplanetary space travel be made possible by harnessing ... nuclear physicist Freeman Dyson and the team behind Project Orion — one of many Cold War attempts to find new beneficial ...

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ... NASA concluded that the Orion project team had overestimated the heat flow as the craft skimmed the atmosphere upon reentry.

The Orion spaceship, which NASA launched this week as a first step on a mission to take astronauts to Mars, has a less powerful computer than your smartphone. It's widely known that today's ...

But President Obama cancelled Constellation in January last, saying the space programme would instead focus on more advanced rocket technology. Mr Obama revived the Orion portion of the project two ...