"Tim Ward" wrote in message
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Why not resurrect project Orion and ride the wake of nuclear blasts into
space.

Tony

Cost?
Even if the hardware was free, the infrastructure to support a surface
launch would be awfully expensive. I know Niven & Pournelle had something
like that in Lucifer's Hammer, but that was an effort to throw off alien
conquerors.

I thought Orion was space-to-space transportation.

The system I've proposed wouldn't be cheap, but it could conceivably take
off and land from a regular airport.

Tim Ward

You really need to see the history channel show on Project Orion. I can't
do it justice here. The team on the project expected to be to Mars buy 1965
if their funding hadn't been dropped.

Tony