Space Technology Unexpectedly Possible in the Sixties

(1)I use it all
(2)It was first conceived in 1946 by the Los Alamos National Laboratory
(3)In 1958, the project began and the partial nuclear test ban treaty was signed
(4)It was a project that ended in 1963
(5)Simply put, it’s a spacecraft that uses a nuclear bomb as its driving force
(6)The process is
(7)1 Load nuclear warheads into spacecraft as much as possible
(8)Two nuclear warheads are injected behind the spacecraft and detonated at a distance
(9)3 Shock waves from exploded nuclear warheads move the spacecraft forward
(10)4 Repeat 2 to 3 until you reach your destination
(11)This is a simulation of Mars exploration
(12)As you can see, the date is set to 1969
(13)Actually, if we used this technology, we could have gone to Mars when we landed on the moon
(14)Technology at the time of the 1958 study
(15)Super Orion, which I expected to be able to make soon
(16)a size of 400 meters and a mass of 8 million tons
(17)It was a scale of 1080 nuclear bombs
(18)Especially, the spacecraft that Freeman Dyson, a famous theoretical physicist, conceived in 1968
(19)20 km in diameter, 40 million tons in mass
(20)Thirty-four of them are nuclear bombs
(21)It took 1330 years at 033 percent of the speed of light
(22)It was a spacecraft that could fly to Alpha Centauri
(23)The production cost was all GNP per year in the United States at the time
(24)If you make it smaller, it’s up to 10 at the speed of light
(25)There was also a calculation that we could reach it
(26)It’s like a science fiction idea
(27)It was possible with the technology of the 1960s
(28)The only way humans can get out of the solar system is still
(29)Remaining in a way