To space and beyond

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Someone needs to add a caveat into the ban on atomic weapons in space so we can get the bloody Orion spaceship going. You'd have to build it in space, but if the math is right, we'd be cruising to Pluto and beyond within a year.
Heck, if we built an elevator it would be built quite quickly.

But no...there's just too much earthly problems...

When I say propulsion, I do not think of atomic propulsion, but more like fusion like propulsion. The Moon have lots of the ingrediens/material to make such a fusion possible. So building some kind of refinery on the moon, could be done during the production of the spaceship.

Markus

[Raptor1]

Originally Posted by mapuc

When I say propulsion, I do not think of atomic propulsion, but more like fusion like propulsion. The Moon have lots of the ingrediens/material to make such a fusion possible. So building some kind of refinery on the moon, could be done during the production of the spaceship.

Markus

Technically, fusion power is still nuclear power, it's just not fission power.

Besides the fact that nobody has yet built a fusion reactor capable of providing actual sustained power, let alone be able to be used as spacecraft propulsion. The moon doesn't really have all that much of the Helium-3 that keeps getting cited as a source for fusion fuel. The outer system gas giants have much more of it, but they're a bit far away...