bernardz wrote:
bombardmentforce wrote:
David Spain wrote:
Project Orion was a concept study.

And a test program. that lead into the Casaba Howitzer test program,
that was the secret core of Reagan's SDI.

http://spacebombardment.blogspot.com...r-concept.html
..It was really only
seriously proposed for use strictly in space. T

Here's evidence it was seriously proposed for Earth launch, by a
serious player, who later was part of the team behind the World Trade
Center.

http://spacebombardment.blogspot.com...-re-lunar.html

An Orion rocket would work but you would not want to launch it from
Earths surface.

I would, the motive, 4 hr ISP.

http://spacebombardment.blogspot.com...1-880-ton.html

Lofted designs can't aspire to the 5 cent / lb efficiency of Dyson's
8,000,000 ton Super-Orion.

I am in favor of large scale space conquest and development, SRBs won't
do.