The constellation Orion ( constellation ) | Orion is one of the most recognizable in the night sky.

In the Master of Orion series of space strategy games, there exists an extraterrestrial race called Silicoids, whose appearance ( and presumably composition ) is similar to crystalline mineral structures.

His son George is a historian of science, one of whose books is Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957 – 1965.

The companion to Hydra, the female water snake, he is forced to journey through Eridanus, Orion, and the Milky Way to visit his lover.

Lepus (, colloquially ) is a constellation lying just south of the celestial equator, immediately south of Orion.

It is located below the constellation Orion ( the hunter ), and is sometimes represented as a hare being chased by Orion or, alternatively, by Orion's hunting dogs.

Lepus is most often represented as a rabbit being hunted by Orion, whose hunting dogs ( Canis Major and Canis Minor ) pursue it.

* In the video games Master of Orion ( 1993 ), Master of Orion 2 ( 1996 ), Master of Orion 3 ( 2003 ), and Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri ( 1999 ), neutronium is one of the strongest armor types.

It is located opposite Orion in the sky.

In contrast to Orion, it is in the period November – January ( summer in the Southern Hemisphere, winter in the Northern Hemisphere ) when Ophiuchus is in the daytime sky and thus not visible at most latitudes.

Rigel ( β Ori, β Orionis, Beta Orionis ) is the brightest star in the constellation Orion and the sixth brightest star in the sky, with visual magnitude 0. 18.

Rigel is also associated with the Orion Nebula, which — while more or less along the same line of sight as the star — is almost twice as far away from Earth.

As a result, Rigel is sometimes classified as an outlying member of the Orion OB1 Association, along with many of the other bright stars in that region of the sky ; more specifically, it is a member of the Taurus-Orion R1 Association, with the OB1 Association reserved for stars closer to the nebula and more recently formed.

The name is because the Asterism of Three Stars was originally composed of just three stars, all of them in the girdle of the Orion.

* The Orion Nebula is discovered by Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc.

While a Mars mission was not specifically detailed, a plan to reach Mars based on utilizing the Orion spacecraft was tentatively developed for implementation in the 2030s.

A " Soft Capture Docking Mechanism ", based on the docking adapter that was to be used on the Orion spacecraft, was installed during the last servicing mission in anticipation of this event.

Valjean saving the sailor on the Orion is based on a real event not witnessed by Hugo himself.

Antiochus practised astrology of a very esoteric kind, and laid the basis for a calendrical reform, by linking the Commagene year, which till then had been based on the movements of the Sun and Moon, to the Sothic-Anahit ( Star of Sirius ) and Hayk ( Star of Orion ) cycle used by the Egyptians as the basis of their calendar.

Following victory, the Australian force in Iraq was limited to specialists attached to the Coalition headquarters in Baghdad and the search for Iraq's suspected weapons of mass destruction, a frigate in the Persian Gulf, a party of air traffic controllers at Baghdad International Airport, two C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, two AP-3C Orion aircraft and small Security Detachment ( SECDET ) consisting of infantry and Airfield Defence Guards protecting the Australian military units and diplomats based in Baghdad.

One of the projects studied under the 199A umbrella was Martin's Bold Orion air-launched ballistic missile ( ALBM ) for the B-47 Stratojet, based on the rocket motor from the Sergeant missile.

" Weird Al " Yankovic was viewed somewhat as a potential saviour by Orion based on test screenings of his comedy UHF, but that film also proved to be a flop.

There are also some scenarios based on other MicroProse games such as X-COM, Master of Orion and Master of Magic " Jr ." scenarios.

The Orion correlation theory, as expounded by popular authors Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, is based on the proposed exact correlation of the three pyramids at Giza with the three stars ζ Ori, ε Ori and δ Ori, the stars forming Orion's Belt, in the relative positions occupied by these stars in 10500 BC.

Two sequels were created, Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares in 1996 and Master of Orion III in 2003-as well as the free, open source FreeOrion which is loosely based on the series.

Fantasy Masterworks is a series of fantastic fiction classics started by Millennium and continued by Gollancz ( both imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group ), as a companion series for their SF Masterworks line.

SF Masterworks is a series of science fiction books started by Millennium and currently published by Gollancz ( both being imprints of the UK based Orion Publishing Group ).

) with a board wargame-style map and unit production based on locations on that map, in some ways similar to the classic Master of Orion series.

The design of the launch vehicle taking Orion into orbit, the Ares I, was closely based on Apollo designs.

The Orion Asteroid Mission is a proposed NASA mission to a near-Earth asteroid ( NEA ) which would use the standard Orion spacecraft, and a landing module based on Altair.

Originally the ultimate goal of NASA's Apollo Applications Program ( AAP ) in the 1960s, the Orion Mars Mission would utilize the hardware, primarily the Orion spacecraft ( or a variation based on the Orion ), and the Ares V cargo-launch vehicle, along with methods of carrying out the mission, which would be developed on board the International Space Station and the planned Lunar Outpost which is to be set up on the surface of the Moon after 2020.

The company spend US $ 100 million developing and producing the car, which is heavily based on the second generation Ford Orion, and competed mainly with the Chevrolet Monza in the local market.

Although heavily based in the second generation of the European Ford Orion, it has an unique body style, being a two-door sedan with a higher rear design and horizontal tail lights.

The Hurricane trackers of the Air Force Reserve are distinct from the NOAA Hurricane Hunters, based at the Aircraft Operations Center at MacDill AFB, in Tampa, Florida using WP-3D Orion and Gulfstream IV-SP aircraft for this mission.

The Origin of Humankind — on adaptive radiation in biology and human evolution, pp. 28 – 32, 1994, Orion Publishing.

The Lunar Module Orion, with Young and Duke inside, landed north and west of the planned landing site at 104 hours, 29 minutes, and 35 seconds into the mission, at 2: 23: 35 UTC on 21 April.

Upon completing their initial adjustments, the pair configured Orion for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their spacesuits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site.

As he did so, the frigate Sérieuse opened fire on Orion, wounding two men.

Orion then rejoined the action further south than intended, firing on the fifth French ship Peuple Souverain and Admiral Blanquet's flagship Franklin.

The nearest British ships, Swiftsure, Alexander and Orion, all stopped firing, closed their gunports and began edging away from the blazing ship in anticipation of the detonation of the enormous ammunition supplies stored on board.

From 1957 to 1961 he worked on the Orion Project, which proposed the possibility of space-flight using nuclear pulse propulsion.

As a young man, he worked for General Atomics on the nuclear-powered Orion spacecraft.

He hoped Project Orion would put men on Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970.

* Orion Passage, a narrow sailing route near Dee Island on the northwestern tip of Antarctica

* " Orion ", a song by Dead Can Dance on the box set Dead Can Dance ( 1981-1998 )

* " Orion ", a song by Jethro Tull on the album Stormwatch

* " Orion " ( Metallica song ), an instrumental by Metallica on the album Master of Puppets

* Orion ( magazine ), a magazine on nature, environment, and culture.

Parker traverses through the Ultor complex, eliminating any resistance Ultor throws at him, and even ( with the help of Orion, a high-ranking Red Faction member ) kidnapping a high-ranking Ultor administrator, Gryphon, for Eos, leader of the Red Faction .< ref > Gryphon: I'll tell you what I can on the way, but more guards are going to show up soon.

He " began to look at the planets and the stars " in May, 1773 and on 1 March 1774 began an astronomical journal by noting his observations of Saturn's rings and the Great Orion Nebula ( M 42 ).

NSWRs share many of the features of Orion propulsion systems, except that NSWRs would generate continuous rather than pulsed thrust and may be workable on much smaller scales than the smallest feasible Orion designs ( which are generally large, due to the requirements of the shock-absorber system and the minimum size of efficient nuclear explosives ).

According to the Vision for Space Exploration, the next manned NASA program was to be Project Constellation with its Ares I and Ares V launch vehicles and the Orion Spacecraft ; however, the Constellation program was never fully funded, and in early 2010 the Obama administration asked Congress to instead endorse a plan with heavy reliance on the private sector for delivering cargo and crew to LEO.

Work on this project was spearheaded by physicist Freeman Dyson, who commented on the decision to end Orion in his article, " Death of a Project ".

Referred to throughout its run as The New Hollywood Squares, the program debuted on September 15, 1986 and was produced by Century Towers Television with Rick Rosner serving as executive producer and Orion Television as distributor.