Project Orion: The Banned Nuclear Ship That Could’ve Reached Saturn

In the 1950s, a group of scientists designed a spaceship that would fly… by detonating nuclear bombs.

This is Project Orion — one of the most audacious space propulsion ideas ever funded. Backed by the U.S. government and led by Cold War physicists, Orion proposed launching a massive ship using atomic explosions as thrust. Not theory. Not fiction. Blueprinted reality.

In this episode of Mind Blown Tech 2Day, we explore where this technology came from, how close we came to launching it, and why it was shut down before it could change history. We’ll also reveal what Orion could still mean for the future of deep space exploration — and why some say it should be revived.

Could we have been an interstellar species by now?

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