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    US Navy Type Spec 146: rivals to the P-3 Orion

    Does anyone have any information, design designations, drawings and specifications on the designs submitted in the 1958 US Navy competition, that lead to the Lockheed P-3A Orion Anti-Submarine/Maritime Patrol Aircraft being declared winner? Regards Pioneer
  2. Orionblamblam

    The memo that killed Orion

    Project Orion died a slow death over a period of years, but this was pretty much that last nail.
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    Orion, nukes, shotguns and the Cold War

    ...way and concentrating on perfecting the worker's paradise at home. The policies that led to "MAD" were purely American and at the time Orion was being contemplated, said policies weren't in place yet. The Orion battleship would've been the ultimate deterrent, it is completely unpremptable...
  4. Orionblamblam

    Project Orion's "Landing Boat"

    The single known image of the design meant to shuttle crews to and from the Orion "Battleship." Further discussion and reconstruction: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=5167
  5. Michel Van

    My latest hare-brained notion

    for me : orion, pluto, and X-20, please ! you got also Gemini Spacecraft, I take it for Orion in issue 4 of APR has it some info about Sowjet Version of Orion ? or it only US Orion...
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    Military Orions (nuclear pulse propulsion)

    Hi everybody THANKS ! Thanks a lot for answering my questions ! Michel and Orionblamblam Great ! Super ! Here are some USAF Orion designs Are these designs realistic ? (for a Space-Battleship) http://www.lepp.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/orion/index.html...
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    Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative

    LM would be managing an Orion Lite
  8. B

    Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) initiative

    The Bigelow Boeing spacecraft is not Orion lite
  9. M

    Military Orions (nuclear pulse propulsion)

    Hi everybody THANKS for the very GREAT drawing ! Orionblamblam Is there an existing drawing of the Orion "Battleship" or was it only a wood model ? Was this Orion "Battleship" also a 4000-ton vehicle ? (? Any dimensions of the Orion-Battleship known ?) What was the task of the...
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    Daedalus

    Re: "Beyond Tomorrow" 1964 Dandridge Cole ( unical scans ) & project Orion Orion
  11. shadowcat48li

    Project Orion / Project Daedalus

    I am looking for information on Project Orion/Daedalus[British name for roughly the same thing] this was an early nuclear powered spacecraft that used focused nuclear explosions for thrust.
  12. Orionblamblam

    The World Ends in approximately 24-28 months.

    Sea Dragon and Orion are great if you already have them, or have the time to develop them. Two years? We might be bending metal on the first prototype Sea Dragon, we'd be nowhere on the Orion.
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    NASA Space Launch System (SLS)

    Orion flew on Delta IV and SLS can fly and will without Orion.
  14. archipeppe

    My latest hare-brained notion

    A Soviet Orion??? I suppose it was only American stuff, brainchild of Freeman Dyson. Or did Russians had a their own Freeman Dyson too?
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    NASA Space Launch System (SLS)

    Well Lockheed-Martin has delivered the completed Orion-2 spacecraft to NASA: Lockheed Martin delivers completed Orion to NASA for Artemis 2
  16. oluen

    Project Orion / Project Daedalus

    Interesting page with links to several reports related to Orion https://www.classe.cornell.edu/~seb/celestia/orion/
  17. Grey Havoc

    Orion test flight

    http://gizmodo.com/here-is-your-ridiculously-spectacular-orion-wallpaper-1667161500 http://www.popsci.com/nasa-drone-finds-orions-capsule
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    IL Aerospace Technologies suborbital RLV

    Not the Orion, but the Aries 1B lunar shuttle. The Orion III was the winged RLV. Martin
  19. FutureSpaceTourist

    Lockheed Martin "Plymouth Rock"

    There's a 40-odd page whitepaper that I believe provides more detail behind the briefing charts: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/data/assets/ssc/Orion/Toolkit/OrionAsteroidMissionWhitePaperAug2010.pdf
  20. BlueAbyssal

    Artemis Moon Program

    A spicy take on Orion: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/nasas-orion-space-capsule-is-flaming-garbage/
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