Nuclear pulse propulsion is a technology that would work. It was being developed in the 1960s but it was stopped because of ...

If we achieve advanced nuclear, antimatter propulsion or other advance propulsion it would be possible to achieve near ...

Saturn by 1970. This was the motto of a group of eminent scientists in the 1950's who had an audacious plan for space travel riding atomic explosions. Physicist Freeman Dyson was part of the team that ...

Before we landed on the Moon, in the early days of the Cold War, Project Orion contemplated using Nuclear Bombs to power ... So long and thanks for all the space junk: China-based Starlink ...

Could interplanetary space travel be made possible ... In 1958, that was the question facing nuclear physicist Freeman Dyson and the team behind Project Orion — one of many Cold War attempts ...