Stuhlinger's Mars Nuclear Eletrical Spaceship (Disney version)

[miraglia]

This idea (Umbrella Spaceship) seems to have been a version of the spacecraft presented in paper


“Concept for a Manned Mars Expedition with Electrically Propelled Vehicles,” Ernst Stuhlinger and Joseph C. King, Progress in Astronautics, Vol. 9, pp. 647-664, 1963; paper presented at the American Rocket Society Electric Propulsion Conference in Berkeley, California, 14-16 March 1962.

Does anyone know any serious technical study of this spacecraft proposed for Disney (Tomorrow Land)?


Miraglia
www.edgeofspace.com.br

 

[miraglia]

I found this document

NASA TMX-57089 Electrical Propulsion System for Space Ships with Nuclear Power Source by Ernst Stuhlinger, 1 July 1955.

http://archive.org/details/nasa_techdoc_19660081611

 

[RanulfC]

These "Beyond Apollo" blogspot articles discuss his work:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/tag/ernst-stuhlinger/

The Disney TV version may have been a modification or just a more "artistic" version of the proposed ships.

Randy

 

[OM]

The Disney TV version may have been a modification or just a more "artistic" version of the proposed ships.

..."Artistic"? Oh, you mean like *this*?

http://www.shapeways.com/model/279766/jal201-venlix-torpedo-cruiser.html?li=related-items&materialId=6


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