Although this vehicle was conceived to take a crew to Mars, it can also be considered for sending smaller probes to the stars." "Experiments using conventional explosives were conducted to demonstrate the viability of this scheme. A huge shock plate with shock absorbers make up the base of the craft," reads one NASA description. "About five bombs per second are dropped out the back and detonated to propel the craft along. But the promise of such a craft was tantalizing, especially given how it worked. The real-life Project Orion began in the late 1950s and ran through the early 1960s until it was shut down after the passage of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, according to a project description on NASA's Glenn Research Center website. (Image credit: NASA/MSFC) Science fiction powered by space facts government's Project Orion in the 1950s and 1960s studied what was required to build such a giant spaceship. This NASA image depicts Project Orion, a spaceship propelled by controlled nuclear explosions. "Ascension" takes the potential of Project Orion and asks the simple question: What if the U.S. government to build a 4,000 ton spaceship propelled through space by nuclear explosions. There is certainly a lot going on in "Ascension" to grab the average space fan, not the least of which is the fact that the ship Ascension itself is based on Project Orion, a real-life 1960s project by the U.S. This leads to Project Ascension, led by a Werner von Braun-esque Abraham Enzmann, who dreamed up a spaceship taller than the Empire State Building that is propelled by nuclear bombs.
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The mission launched in 1963, when the Space Race was in full swing and the Cold War made the threat of global nuclear war an uncomfortable possibility. 15), 600 people live aboard an Orion-class nuclear spacecraft on a mission to Proxima Centauri. In "Ascension," a three-part SyFy miniseries that launches tonight (Dec. Actor Brian Van Holt portrays William Denninger, Captain of the Ascension starship in the SyFy miniseries "Ascension." (Image credit: Diego Uchitel/Syfy)
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