Kniha: Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957-1965 v anglickom jazyku

In 1957 a group of scientists launched a madcap scheme to send a nuclear-bomb-propelled spaceship to Mars. It became known as Project Orion, and is one of the most fantastic ‘what if’ stories ever told …

Orion was to weigh 4,000 tons, carry 2,600 bombs and transport fifty passengers on a voyage around the solar system. Its team included physicist Freeman Dyson, whose son George was five years old at the time. Now, George Dyson has pieced together the incredible story