The original Orion project: Nuclear-powered flights to Mars

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The original Orion project: Nuclear-powered flights to Mars

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At one time under consideration by NASA and the Air Force, atom bomb powered super ships over 20,000 tons could have put a crew of 150 men on Mars by 1970 and at the same cost as the Apollo program. And it's Von Braun approved. :)

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This was also mentioned in Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".
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