Jim Davis wrote in message .1.4...
william mook wrote:

*Orion was proposed but not built but used 1980s technology.

Didn't you used to claim that Orion was 1940s technology? Why the
change of mind?

Jim Davis

Ted Taylor certainly created the concept in the 1940s and the A-bomb
that he envisioned powering the early versions was 1940 era. But, I
was putting this in a development arc that included the development
cycle proposed by NASA, wherein NERVA was replaced with neo-Orion.