On Aug 10, 8:55*pm, "Kennewick Man; the first, the BEST!"
wrote:
On Aug 10, 8:03*pm, giveitawhirl2008
wrote:





Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and beyond: not just for telescopes and robots,
anymore....

You wanna get there fast, with foreseeable technology?

Fragmentation Nuclear Rockets Viable for High-Speed Solar System
Exploration, and Precursor Interstellar Missions! [addendum/update to
earlier post]

The NASA fragmentation nuclear rocket site ref'd in below post no
longer working, so here's Wikipedia on fragnukes:

First, original post:

http://groups.google.com/group/one-m...hread/thread/8...

Wiki on fragnuke rockets:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket

RESTART PROJECT ORION! *They've wasted enough time on ancient
chemical, underpowered rockets and appeasing LIBERAL PANSIES who don't
like nuclear. *The ONLY way they'll ever get outside of the Moon's
orbit with a manned crew (and FAST, in one trip!) is with and Orion
Project rocket.

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Project Orion sounds neat, but might be unnecessarily
"contrapionistic." (Just my thought.)