nuclear rockets

The Source at Flickr label it as: Expulsive Nuclear-Electric Manned Astroliner (ENEMA) launch. Convair/General Dynamic artist’s concept. (1960-1962) View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/apollo4ever/54280085188/in/photolist-2qGxCeJ got someone more info about this ?

I stumbled upon this while reading Edward Hujsak's 1994 The Future of U.S. Rocketry. ULLV stands for "Ultra Large Launch Vehicle" This is a concept by the "Perigee West Company of La Jolla, California", which Edward Hujsak happened to be the president of, the company got several hundred...

Douglas Nuclear Space Ship Douglas 1960 nuclear powered spacecraft View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/48nbte/1960_douglas_aircraft_concept_for_a/ A Look Back…Recoverable Rocket Boosters - A Future That Never Was by Tony R. Landis Page: 8 - DOUGLAS NUCLEAR LAUNCH VEHICLE...

Seems to have quite an early proposed flight date of fiscal year 2026. https://spacenews.com/darpa-moving-forward-with-development-of-nuclear-powered-spacecraft/

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-futuristic-space-technology-concepts-for-early-study/

(Shamelessly stolen from the website atomic rockets) One notional 1959 concept for a large military Orion was the “doomsday weapon" idea. Instead of one Orion carrying a large number or weapons, able to rain down devastation on many separate targets, the idea was to equip one Orion with one...

We have discussed the pros and cons of Stephen Baxter's novel "Voyage" about a US crew landing on Mars in 1985. But could a mission like that have been done with the technology available to NASA?

Nuclear propulsion spacecraft "Nuklon" / "Нуклон" / "Nucleon" also known as TEM / ТЭМ ( Transport and Energy Module ) / Транспортно-Энергетический Модуль / Transportno-Energeticheskiy Modul' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEM_(nuclear_propulsion) The assembly process has started! :cool...

I wouldn't bother posting this except the guy behind it was the man who worked out the gravity assist flight profiles for Voyager. The video is long on math and design concept and features a Concorde like design at the very end. He assumes a constant 1 G flight to anywhere and winds up with...

Apple has released the first three episodes of For All Mankind, an alternate history TV series. Ron Moore, of Battlestar Galactica, is running it. The premise is that the Soviets were lucky with the N-1 and the first man on the moon was Alexei Leonov. As a result, the space race continues...

The first of the "Thousand Astronomical Unit" space probes designed from the late 70's into the 80's. Nuclear electric propulsion would send the craft on a fifty-year mission into interplanetary space to test technologies for a future true interstellar mission, for deep-space science and to map...

Putin announcerd that the Russians are developing a nuclear powered strategic cruise missile. Presumably it would be armed with a nuclear warhead since flying an open cycle reactor over anyone would probably be a nuclear attack anyway...

Couldn't find an existing thread for this. http://m.aviationweek.com/space/nasa-keeping-nuclear-thermal-option-open-mars

Just finished watching the first episode of Ascension. Wow! George Dyson, call your office! I was wondering how they maintained a 1G acceleration -- all revealed in the last two minutes. David

From here: http://up-ship.com/blog/?p=8110 Showing the radiation levels around a NERVA. Note that the magnitudes (ten-to-the-holycrap power) are shown as faint large background numerals.

In this months Spaceflight, there is an article on Starships of the Future (mostly Daedalus and Icarus) that mentions a suggestion by G H Stein published in Analog, October 1973 called "A Program for Star Flight". 'A full program of exploration was proposed which would utilise a fleet of no...

ASPEN BACKGROUND In the 1950s and 1960s, many potential uses of nuclear power were explored, such as NTRs. An NTR uses a nuclear reactor to heat a working fluid, such as hydrogen, and exhaust this fluid in a nozzle for thrust. Many studies of this technology were conducted, and prototypes were...

In light of the wildly varying opinions on this somewhat polarizing topic I have a proposal that may require this being moved to Theoretical and Speculative or to Alternative History and Future Speculation. Not sure which. I would like to employ my considerable artistic prowess to creating a...

USAF interplanetary spacecraft concept model using Space Power Unit Reactor (SPUR) found on EBay. http://cgi.ebay.com/Spacecraft-Concept-Contractor-Desk-Model-NASA-USAF_W0QQitemZ110459822900QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item19b7eb2334 Description from EBay:

From back when rockets were supposed to be big, 1963, comes the Convair "Nexus." A single stage to orbit hydrogen-oxygen booster with one *million* pounds of payload. As a bonus, the hocky-puck-shaped vehicle was to be recoverable and resuable. The computer rendering is of a 1/288 scale model...