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

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.

* Orion ( spacecraft ), NASA's Space Shuttle replacement

** Orion Lite, a proposed stripped-down version of the Orion spacecraft

Following an independent investigation into the cause of the accident, President Bush decided to retire the Shuttle orbiter fleet by 2010 in favor of the Constellation program and its manned Orion spacecraft.

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.

The surest way of building a fusion rocket with current technology is to use hydrogen bombs as proposed in Project Orion, but such a spacecraft would also be massive.

* Altair – US lunar lander of Orion spacecraft

The Orion ( Constellation program ) | Orion spacecraft

For missions beyond low Earth orbit NASA is building the Space Launch System and the Orion spacecraft.

This legislation would have kept the shuttle flying past 2010 at a reduced rate until the Orion spacecraft would have been ready to replace it.

The Orion spacecraft has been left virtually unchanged from its previous design.

An artist's conception of the NASA reference design for the Project Orion spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion.

* Project Orion ( 1958 – 1965 ), mostly manned interplanetary spacecraft

An artist's conception of the Project Orion ( nuclear propulsion ) | Project Orion " basic " spacecraft, powered by nuclear pulse propulsion.

The idea of Orion was to react small directional nuclear explosives against a large steel pusher plate attached to the spacecraft with shock absorbers.

this will remain unchanged until an crewed US spacecraft like the Orion or one the Commercial Crew Development spacecraft is ready to use for the ISS – with the Chinese Shenzhou program being the only other program in the World with planned semi-regular crewed spaceflights.

The largest spacecraft design analyzed in the Orion project had a 400 m diameter and weighed approximately 8 million tons.

* Project Orion begins, a U. S. program to build a spacecraft powered by nuclear explosions.

An artist's conception of the NASA reference design for the Project Orion spacecraft powered by nuclear propulsion.

Project Orion was a study of a spacecraft intended to be directly propelled by a series of explosions of atomic bombs behind the craft ( nuclear pulse propulsion ).

According to mission rules, Orion would have then re-docked with Casper, in case mission control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth.

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

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 ).

It would later introduce rockabilly tribute singer Jimmy " Orion " Ellis in 1980 as Orion taking on the persona of Elvis Presley.

Within days they announced the formation of Orion Pictures, with backing from Warner ( Orion would eventually be a part of MGM along with United Artists, while Warner retained the rights to the pre-1982 Orion library along with acquiring the rights to a few post-1982 Orion films.

There has been speculation that the Mayans of Central America may have described the nebula within their " Three Hearthstones " creation myth ; if so, the three would correspond to two stars at the base of Orion, Rigel and Saiph, and another, Alnitak at the tip of the " belt " of the imagined hunter, the vertices of a nearly perfect triangle with Orion's Sword ( including the Orion Nebula ) in the middle seen as the smudge of smoke from copal incense in a modern myth, or, in ( the translation it suggests of ) an ancient one, the literal or figurative embers of a fiery creation.

In July 2011, Orion Publishing Group announced that the third edition of the encyclopedia would be released online later that year by ESF Ltd in association with Victor Gollancz, Orion's science fiction imprint.

A northern-hemisphere observer facing south would see it at the lower left of Orion, and a southern-hemisphere observer facing north would see it at the upper right.

The Orion Nebula, which lies at a distance of about 500 pc ( 1, 500 light-years ) is part of a GMC ( called OMC-1 ) which, if it were visible, would fill most of the constellation of Orion.

If the Tarantula Nebula was as close to Earth as the Orion Nebula, it would shine about as brightly as the full moon in the night sky.

The company — holding a $ 100 million line of credit — set out to finance films that would be made by independent producers and distributed by the Warner Bros. studio, with Orion maintaining full control over distribution and advertising.

Orion got a shot in the arm at the end of 1980, when Woody Allen announced upon the expiration of his contract that he would be leaving UA ; he planned to make three movies with his longtime collaborators at Orion.

In February 1982, Orion announced that it would take control of the company.

However some designs such as the Orion project and some nuclear thermal designs do have a thrust to weight ratio in excess of 1, enabling them to lift off.

During this time the Ares I and Orion as well as the Altair Lunar Lander were to be under development ( although now these programs have been canceled ).

Computer simulations have shown that the Pleiades was probably formed from a compact configuration that resembled the Orion Nebula.

All episodes are intact, but due to cross-ownershipCBS Television Distribution owns the rights to Hollywood Squares ( at the time of MGHS it was owned by Orion Television ) while FremantleMedia owns Match Game have never been rerun.

Artemis ( to whom the Ceryneian Hind was said to have been sacred, causing her to draw an arrow at Hercules, just like the constellation Sagittarius appears to be doing ), is a key player in the myth discussing the origin of Scorpio and death of Orion, and so has an association with this area of sky.

Candaon may still be Orion ; Pelops may well have acquired his sword.

Gods who ride such animals, notably Shiva and Dionysos, or who have canine servants, notably Orion and Osiris ( with Anubis his gatekeeper and embalmer ), were also regarded by Kerenyi as partly derived from Iachen, the sublimator, or an even older myth.

The pair are located in the Orion Nebula and have approximate masses of 0. 054 M < sub >☉</ sub > and 0. 034 M < sub >☉</ sub > respectively, with an orbital period of 9. 8 days.

Observers have given names to various features in the Orion Nebula.

Recent observations with the Hubble Space Telescope have yielded the major discovery of protoplanetary disks within the Orion Nebula, which have been dubbed proplyds.

The first Horrid Henry book was written and published in 1994 by Orion Books and as of the end of 2010, there have been nineteen titles published, as well as numerous collections, activity books and joke books.

While recently released on DVD by Toei Video in Japan ( the entire series was previously issued on laserdisc in the 1990s ), the complete series has yet to be released on Region 1 DVD ; only ten episodes ( some out of broadcast order ) had been released on videocassette by Orion Home Video in the United States, which have long since gone out of print.

** Two AP-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft and 150 support personnel ( these aircraft may have operated in the electronic intelligence gathering role ).

Since 1966 many rockets of the Nike Apache, Nicke Javellin, Nicke Irolquois, Nike Tomahawk, Black Brant, Taurus Orion, and Terrier Orion types have been launched from this facility.

Such a ship would have to be large, and the only adequate technology likely to be available ( even assuming the most favorable economic and political factors ) soon enough to make plans is the Orion concept of propulsion by nuclear pulses.

Recent observations by the Hubble Space Telescope have shown proplyds and planetary disks to be forming within the Orion Nebula.

Two commercial sequels to Master of Orion have been released, Master of Orion II: Battle at Antares and Master of Orion III.