Something I Should Have Had All Along, But Didn't

May 18, 2012 13:04

I went to the library's annual book sale and got a hardback copy of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, which I'll probably spend the summer reading and re-reading.

What piqued my immediate interest are diagrams of the three main hypothetical starship designs of the Sixties and Seventies: Orion, Daedalus, and the Bussard Ramscoop. I'd first learned about Orion ( Read more... )

books, movies, nuclear war, space travel, models, science, flight, science-fiction, hardware, tv, history, space program, pbs

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tochiro998 May 20 2012, 21:44:38 UTC
I love Orion ( ... )

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zeblar May 20 2012, 22:39:15 UTC
You should most definitely do that movie. That's a fascinating thing, I had no idea such a program had been planned... Just imagine where we could be by now!

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