About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Exoatmospheric nuclear explosive tests, Nuclear spacecraft propulsion, Nuclear pulse propulsion, Nuclear thermal rocket, Nuclear salt-water rocket, Bussard ramjet, Fusion rocket, Nuclear photonic rocket, Nuclear electric rocket, Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion, Operation Argus, List of artificial radiation belts, Project Orion, Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, Operation Fishbowl, Starfish Prime, Gas core reactor rocket, NERVA, High-altitude nuclear explosion, Thermionic converter, The K Project, Operation Dominic I and II, Atomic battery, Project Rover, Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power, SNAP-10A, TOPAZ nuclear reactor, Kosmos 1818, RORSAT, British Rail flying saucer, Kosmos 1867, Fission-fragment rocket, Mini-Mag Orion, Project Prometheus, Kosmos 954, Radioisotope rocket, Hardtack Teak, Romashka reactor, Radioisotope heater unit, Safe Affordable Fission Engine, Space Nuclear Propulsion Office, Project Longshot, Charles Osmond Frederick, Advanced Stirling Radioisotope Generator, GPHS-RTG, Fission sail, Krasnaya Zvezda State Enterprise, RD-0410, Helios, Nuclear lightbulb, Project Timberwind, Project Icarus, General Purpose Heat Source, Kosmos 1402, Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, ICAN-II, AIMStar, SP-100, 11B97. Excerpt: Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft (Nuclear pulse propulsion). Early versions of this vehicle were proposed to have taken off from the ground with significant associated nuclear fallout; later versions were presented for use only in space. A 1955 Los Alamos Laboratory document states (without offering references) that general proposals were first made by Stanislaw Ulam in 1946, and that preliminary calculations were made by F. Reines and Ulam in a Los Alamos m...
