Orion is such a dissapointment, guys at NASA are duchebags

[Heraclitus]

So let me get this right after using technology developed in the 70's for the last 20 years, it can only repalce it by updating tech from the 1960's.


Apollo on steroids is the best the worlds supposedly premiere space agency can come up with?



Shig, I have a depressing feeling that the public will just grow tired of this mediocracy and cancell your space program in a decade or two.

[Heraclitus]

This is from the 1950's. How dare NASA smudge the name.



To a time when humans had balls.

People are such retards , we don't mind our governments testing hundreds of atomic bombs during the cold war, but we mind using nukes in space.

"Technology suppressed for political reasons"

I'm afraid that because of my love for humanity, I've become a bit of a misanthrope.

[Heraclitus]

[Tattila the Hun]

So, what exactly happened?Did they start building Project Orion-propulsion, and cancel it?

[Will9]

Re: Orion is such a dissapointment, guys at NASA are duchebags

Originally posted by Heraclitus
So let me get this right after using technology developed in the 70's for the last 20 years, it can only repalce it by updating tech from the 1960's.

No. The shuttle was built for Earth orbit, heavy lifting, and nothing else. Orion/Altair is to do much more (Moon, Lagrange point 2, Mars, and maybe even an NEO, but minus the lifting which will be done by separate rockets.) Orion/Altair is not an update of 60s tech, but more of putting new tech in an updated design from the 60s. Also, why shouldn't we base the design of something that is supposed to take man out Earth orbit on the only thing that has actually taken man out of Earth orbit? We are basing it on the one design that we know can do the job.

[snoopy369]

When has man left earth orbit?

[Will9]

Originally posted by snoopy369
When has man left earth orbit?

Sorry, I meant low Earth orbit

[BeBMan]

I thought this was a NASA birthday threadi

[Heraclitus]

It was a mad scientists drunk threadi

[Dinner]

When I was growing up my friend's dad worked at General Atomics (the company which built the nuclear pulse propulsion prototype seen in the video). They were one of the pioneers in the nuclear power industry and still make a ton of reactors.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
So, what exactly happened?Did they start building Project Orion-propulsion, and cancel it?

The project got canceled long before that. The reason wasn't any technical difficulty or the fear that it wouldn't be worth its money. It was canceled because of the publics fear of "nuclear" technology.