Project Orion was an effort to develop a rocket propulsion system using successive explosions of small nuclear bombs. Project engineers hoped this nuclear "pulse" concept could provide extremely fast and powerful propulsion for human exploration of the planets. The project was initiated by the Advanced Research Projects Agency in 1958 and cancelled in 1965.
http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/dsh/artifacts/RM-ORION.htm
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