Orion to the Moon!

[sdelmonte]

Space.com reports that NASA has both a name and a logo for missions to get men back to the Moon: Orion.

If that seems at all familiar, it's because there was a Project Orion fifty years ago. It was an Air Force project to study the possibilities of using A-bombs detonated behind spacecraft as a way to propel them to Mars and beyond. I gotta wonder if anyone at NASA thought about this.

Still, we can look forward to the Ares rockets launching the Orion missions to the Moon using the Crew Exploration Vessel (CEV). We might not have the equipment yet, or the funding, or any real vision, but we have names!

Comments

[vonandmoggy.livejournal.com]

After initially misreading your subject line as "Onion to the Moon," which makes very little sense...that's very cool! The space geek in me is dancing for joy. :)

[dotsomething.livejournal.com]

Bang! Zoom!

Wouldn't it be awesome if we actually do get back there?

[immortalthief.livejournal.com]

Ooh yeah am now total geeking out at work. I'm not sure if I'm actually going to get any work done today. So, thank you very much for this link.

Oh also waves.

How are you guys doing? Hope all is going well.