I've found references to this project with a slightly different spelling of Marquart (Marquardt) on the web. A. C. Clarke also wrote a story about nuclear powered RAM jets incorporated into a first stage launch vehicle years ago. I don't remember the name of the story, but I do remember reading it.
-----Original Message----- From: David Weinshenker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 10:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ERPS] ISAS paper Sander Pool wrote: > > I assume everyone here saw the Discovery Wings show about the Pluto project. > Attempts in the 50s (60s?) to build a nuclear ramjet powered cruise missile. I didn't see the show, but I heard of the project elsewhere... reportedly the wind tunnel at Marquart Labs where the one actual engine run took place was still radioactive decades later... and in flight there would be no safe way to shut the thing down once it was running (think decay heat...) so it was inherently a single use vehicles: Test runs, as well as aborted attacks, were to end by diving the beast into a deep place in the ocean. (They'd never be able to get the environmental impact papers for _that_ approved these days!) -dave w _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
