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August 23, 2006

NASA's new manned exploration vehicle gets a name

...and that name is "Orion." Nifty, but why go back to the moon? To Mars, where half-naked women and swashbuckling surely await!

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On August 28, 2006 5:48 PM, Lance said:

Actually I'm disapointed it's not a massive, nuclear powered rocket capable of arriving at Jupiter in weeks, not years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29

Excelent book on the subject is available by George Dyson, the son of the physicist (who also is a BC resident - living in a tree house)

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