Main content
To Mars by A-Bomb
The extraordinary story of a secret American project to build a spacecraft the size of an ocean liner and despatch it to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.
Documentary telling the amazing true story of a top secret US government-backed attempt to build
a spaceship the size of an ocean liner and send it to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, propelled by thousands of miniature nuclear bombs. Awesome, fantastic and possibly crazy, Project Orion employed some of the best scientists in the world, including the brilliant British mathematician and physicist Freeman Dyson.
Last on
Mon 16 Nov 2009
01:00