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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] That could be just about anything - a Bonestell picture of the nozzle of a conventional moon rocket, vintage 1950, for example. But it does look very much like the hemispherical fusion chamber of the so-called Daedalus ship, which was supposed to work by controlled laser fusion of deuterium (a bit smoother than just exploding H-bombs off the stern like in Project Orion - but not much). IIRC, the Daedalus wasn't a NASA study project: it was something cooked up by the BIS, or the British Interplanetary Society, and then refined by others. The Daedalus was supposed to go to Barnard's star (some 50 ly away), using two identically shaped but differently sized stages to accelerate and launching probes as it flies past the star. Having it as close to a planet as in that picture would probably mean that a disastrous collision with a dust particle is only a fraction of a second away... Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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