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You lose much of the advantage of Orion, since Orion is extremely heavy, and you're doing the hardest part of the work without it.

Launch Abort System for the new Orion spacecraft will have attitude control motor and thus no need for ballast.

And to contrast this with the Orion capsule abort system: Crew Dragon's abort thrusters will eventually used for landing, while Orion's (much heavier) abort system is jettisoned 120 seconds into flight.

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That meant that the only feasible way to get Orion up to orbit was for it to fly there under its own power.

Their cheapest offering (the orion) starts at around 650 USD - and that generally seems to be about the starting range for these things.

Project Orion had much more thrust than this proposal but also came attached to a very heavy lifter plate and set of shock absorbers.

Interstellar flight is hard, but is technically possible with technology contemporary with The Beatles: look up Project Orion and read about Dyson's thermonuclear performance estimates...

The Orion project was all done before the Apollo project was planned, so it is kindof an alternative way the US space program could have gone.

IBM is doing similar work with Orion on BlueMix.

At the same time, I was getting into guitar with my cousins and playing instrumentals such as Metallica's Orion or Call of Cthulhu.

Master of Orion (again, the first one) was pure awesome and I still dig it up to play it at least once a year.

The book "Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship" by George Dyson is really fascinating.

Sometimes literally, in about 2006 I discovered Gollancz/Orion's "Sci-Fi Masterworks" series and was getting through more than one per week, in addition to holding down a job and having a pretty active social life.

Some fans even made patches for bugs in Master of Orion, in the binary.

Orion claims this implies that I regard ALL companies as unethical, but no, only certain specific ones.

Orion is a really cool concept and it's a lot of fun to think about, but realistically any space propulsion system that horribly contaminates the atmosphere and fries every satellite anywhere near Earth is not an option.