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How we might have gone to Mars in 1965 Works & process at the Guggenheim

Title
How we might have gone to Mars in 1965 [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication
2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp.
  • Dyson, Freeman J.
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
  • Project Orion (United States. Air Force)
Description
1 videodisc (NTSC) (80 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Physicist Freeman Dyson discusses Project Orion, a failed plan to build a large manned spaceship propelled by a large number of nuclear bombs for interplanetary exploration. Begun in 1958 as a technically superior alternative to chemical rockets, the intention was to land on Mars by 1965. Dyson discusses how Ted Taylor, a bomb designer at Los Alamos, came up with the idea for Project Orion; describes what the Orion spaceship would have looked like; lists the three types of nuclear propulsion; and mentions the various scientists involved in the project, including Frederic de Hoffmann, the founder of the General Atomic company that oversaw the Orion Project. Dyson also discusses the need for the large number of bombs used to propel the rocket; design problems; the plan to go to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn; the cost estimates for the project; the different types of bomb delivery systems; the problem of fall-out; the potential for assorted kinds of accidents; a description of the NASA and Air Force versions of Orion; and the reasons why the project was dropped. Dyson then takes questions from the audience.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 309
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Subject
  • Dyson, Freeman J
  • Taylor, Theodore B., 1925-
  • De Hoffmann, Frederic
  • Space flight
Genre/Form
  • Video.
  • Addresses.
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 5, 2007.
Funding (note)
  • With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-2966
OCLC
172988038
Title
How we might have gone to Mars in 1965 [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Imprint
2007.
Country of Producing Entity
United States.
Series
Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 309
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Performer
Host, Mary Sharp Cronson.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on March 5, 2007.
Funding
With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation and Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Local Note
For program recorded on March 4, 2007, see *MGZIDVD 5-2965.
Added Author
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
Dyson, Freeman J. Speaker
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Project Orion (United States. Air Force)
Research Call Number
*MGZIDVD 5-2966
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