<div class="gmail_quote">On 25 July 2011 06:12, Samantha Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sjatkins@mac.com">sjatkins@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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</div>A nuclear launch cannon gets around many of the Orion problems.  <a href="http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html" target="_blank">http://nextbigfuture.com/2010/12/sea-based-launch-option-for-nuclear.html</a><br>

<font color="#888888"></font><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Wow, this sounds very promising indeed.<br><br>Not too comfortable for travellers, I guess, but once you have most of the payload in orbit or to the moon very cheaply, you can take the luxury of using chemical rockets or even scramjet-rocket hybrids for fragile items.<br>
<br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>