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<b>The Space Review.</b><br /><br />(credit: Phil Smith courtesy of Sam Dinkin)<br /><br />If President Bush wants the 51st state to be New Texas on the Moon, he should consider reviving Orion. <br /><br /><b>Revisiting Project Orion.</b><br />by Sam Dinkin.<br /><br />If you look on Amazon.com for Jeff Bezos’s personal book reviews, the only rocket book you will see is Project Orion. His summary from April 14, 2002 is as follows:<br /><br />For those of us who dream of visiting the outer planets, seeing Saturn’s rings up close without intermediation of telescopes or charge-coupled devices, well, we pretty much *have* to read “Project Orion.” In 1958, some of the world’s smartest people, including famous physicist Freeman Dyson (the author’s father), expected to visit the outer planets in “Orion,” a nuclear-bomb propelled ship big enough and powerful enough to seat its passengers in lazy-boy recliners. They expected to start their grand tour by 1970. This was not pie-in-the-sky optimism; they had strong technical reasons for believing they could do it.<br /><br /><br />Continued........CLICK HERE.