The insane USAF space battleship that almost got built - Project Orion Battleship

At full speed, expending all of the Nuclear bombs, this Spacecraft could reach Mars in as little as 12 hours… you could literally sleep that time away!

Need better tech instead of poison the planet. Every on get a cancer and radiation problems whit this tech

Orion is real startrec is dumb

Never heard of this Battleship proposal, just the Orion engine...That is pretty formidable looking.

If not for the Outer Space Treaty, one of those could probably replace the entire nuclear submarine fleet in the role of deterrence.

Further proof that we seriously lost the dream. The audacity is beautiful.

I would've joined.... hint HINT.

I think if the US military Hasn't built something like this by now, then they've failed completely. They certainly have the $$ to have already built a fleet.

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The best part about Project Orion is that you’re not limited by size and weight, you could launch the entire mass of Chicago into earth orbit and beyond (that was literally stated by one of the scientists that worked on the project) and that’s just with traditional nuclear explosions.

How would this thing land or slow down and how would it take off from earth

IDGAF ABOUT STAR TRECK STFU HONESTLY I WANT COOL SPACE SHIP

so that’s where the 3 body problem got that from

The Star Trek sponsorship ruined this video.

Why did kenedy say, no? He should've said yes we can build this but we cant put weapons on it

man good thing they removed JFK from presidency..

and what is with the tenthousends of years, passed by on earth during your journey? they probably didn't even know such a mission existed and mistake you as an alien

We Americans 🇺🇸 should actually build the Orion nuclear ☢️ propulsion space craft we obviously have the money, the resources, the know how, and the technology to do so… a space craft like Orion would be perfect for the first human mission to mars.

Yes, almost got built.

We could have used this to colonize the solar system already...

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It's sad that we are still stuck using early 20th Century chemical rocket technology.

Whose money is being used to make these battleships i hope not mine I dont want any kind of space ship or anything to do with space its a huge waste of money

Who ARE the Klingons?

NASA and DoD need to start testing generalize existing weapons systems. For example, testing a standard mini chain ,gun, machine guns, gatlin guns, CIWS system and etc. Another example, is testing escapulated box system like the MK 41 vls system used on US NAVY Ships...

What would have been the environment impact of thousands of air burst mini nukes to the environment?

Thou art a tease!
What's the story with the massive Quantas labeled, at least double decked...Airbus?...at the end?
A tease art thou!

We can thank President Kennedy that this monstrosity was never made. This would have strained the relationship between the west and east.

Imagine how today would look like if humans used this for war

Spaceships can't be crazy. They are inanimate objects. Except HAL 9000. He was pretty crazy.

Way to make the whole fucking video an ad. Jesus Christ dude.

We should build a fleet of these just incase ET gets a bit uppity.

Footfall, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, is a good, fictional read.

I feel like time timeline where this got built is the better one.

This has more in common with the Space Battleship Yamato than the Enterprise, hell they both can use their Propulsion Systems as WMDs!

this is one of the few times where can tolerate a bow brigde with windows. With the level of technologie they had back then nothing else would have been reliable enough.

one can only imagin if they presented the exploration version

If this orion space battleship had exsisted, i wont be too shocked if there were soviet space ramming rockets and nuclear space missiles or their own space battle ship

so we just ignore the pic of Guilliman???

Fuck Kennedy he messed up the whole game

with todays modern materials and nuclear devices...we could really make something work...plus what better way to get rid of pesky nukes then to use them for a good purpose instead of self destruction...help remove that dark cloud thats been hanging over nuclear power in general since its start...

They say it was cancelled by JFK. Given though, what I know about "USAPs"(unacknowledged special access programs) I find it hard to believe they just " threw away" everything that was already done? I'm willing to bet at least 1 of these things is floating around or in "storage" underground somewhere?

Makes you wonder what kinda drugs these engineers were doing, that jas got to be one of the most preposterous aerospace ideas of the cold war, and thats saying alot.

I am going to be real with you i need that model

Phantastic Plastics made one but their sold out and out of production