Orion Project

In the 1950 s, the nuclear scientists at the Los Alamos Laboratory devised Project Orion, a proposed interplanetary vehicle propelled through space by riding the shockwave of a nuclear device exploded a distance behind the vehicle. Project Orion never got off the drawing board. 

George Dyson, Project Orion (2002), pp. 270-273. The very characteristic that made the project so difficult in reality was to be the fictive initiative for alien action as a human spacecraft was detected throwing off a spray of radiation like the wake of a racing speedboat. ... 

Another early concept for nuclear propulsion was Project Orion, which relied on a series of nuclear blasts behind the payload to create shock waves that accelerated the devier (Schmidt et al., 2002). Although this technology looked promising, it was abandoned in the 1960s because of a ban on nuclear testing. 

Schmidt, G., J. Bonometti, and C. Irvine. 2002. Project Orion and future prospects for nuclear propulsion. Journal of Propulsion Power 18(3) 497-504. 

I wish to thank the following organizations for their research literature Dion-ex Corporation, Hach Company, J W Scientific, Millipore Corporation, Ohmicro Corporation, Orion Research, Restek Corporation, and Supelco Incorporated. I wish to express my thanks to Mr. Neil Levine, acquisition editor Ms. Joann Fazzi, editorial assistant Mrs. Carole Sweatman, project editor and all others in the staff of Lewis Publishers/CRC Press for the production of this book. Also, I would like to thank Mr. Skip DeWall, former editor at Lewis Publishers, for initiating this project. 

Heinonen, E. R D pipeline of Orion Pharma - update of the progress of project, http //img.orion.fi/liitteet/ 200857.pdf. 

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