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Code name : Project Orion / produced by John Ketcham and Ward & Associates.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Kent, Arthur, 1953- Narrator.
Ketcham, John., Producer.
Ward & Associates (Firm), Producer.
Series:
Academic Video Online
History undercover
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Project Orion (United States. Air Force).
Interplanetary voyages.
Nuclear energy--Research--United States.
Nuclear energy.
Space flight.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (46 min.).
Place of Publication:
New York : A&E Television Networks, 1999.
Language Note:
In English.
Original language in English.
Summary:
In late 1950's, several nuclear physicists in the United States envisioned using atomic bombs to power immense spaceships into space beyond the moon. Scientists Theodore B. Taylor and Freeman Dyson are interviewed about this, until recently, highly classified, deep-space project named Project Orion.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 9, 2013).
OCLC:
867554333

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