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Old 26-04-2017, 10:43 AM #19
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Originally Posted by James View Post
Nuclear-pulse propulsion, where a spaceship is propelled by exploding nuclear bombs is one technologies that could be used to reach the nearest stars, within, say a few hundred years.

The Americans actually started a project - called Project Orion - to study the possibilty of building a spacecraft like that in the 50s and 60s - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projec...ear_propulsion) .

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