| The idea that man could fly to Pluto and return | | | | single day. Until man becomes fascinated with the |
| within a year is not just an idea, but fact. Project | | | | idea of stepping foot on other planets, the project |
| Orion is the high performance method of space | | | | will never be. Perhaps in the future, man will be |
| flight, making speeds as fast as 10% the speed | | | | interested in walking on Pluto, and Mars. Until then, |
| of light possible for manned missions. Harnessing | | | | they will remain tiny dots in the night sky, forever |
| the power of nuclear blasts to provide propulsion | | | | waiting our arrival. |
| for massive space craft would make our solar | | | | Life has the amazing ability to survive in any |
| system a much smaller place, with unmanned | | | | situation you place it in. Man, being the tool user, |
| missions capable of achieving a theorized 50-80% | | | | could build a habitable base on every planet, |
| the speed of light. | | | | requiring only single trips to transport all his |
| Project Orion never came to be, unfortunately, as | | | | materials. When our planet is ravaged by global |
| lifting an Orion spaceship off the ground into low | | | | warming and famine, we'll have nowhere to go |
| level orbit would require 300 nuclear blasts, | | | | but skyward. Project Orion will be our last great |
| beginning at ground level and working their way | | | | hope for survival when our home can no longer |
| up to 300 miles high. The partial nuclear test ban | | | | support us. Maybe this won't occur for thousands |
| treaty of the 1960's ruined any chance Project | | | | of years, maybe we'll be long extinct by that |
| Orion ever had of taking off. A few signatures, | | | | time. The fact of the matter is this: One day, we |
| some hand shakes and some smiles for the | | | | will inhabit more than one planet, and Project |
| camera's put an end to mans ability to travel | | | | Orion will make it happen. |
| hundreds of millions of miles through space in a | | | | |