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> George Dyson
George Dyson
George Dyson
(1953-)
is a science historian and the son of Freeman Dyson.
He was a child at the time of Project Orion, but says he was generally
aware that his father was working on spacecraft design at that time.
George Dyson's books include
Project Orion: The Atomic Spaceship 1957 to 1965,
and he has also written on the subject of the Internet developing sentience,
and kayaks (a subject in which he has been interested, since his childhood).
He himself is also the subject of a book,
Kenneth Brower's
The Starship and the Canoe .
- Here is a video featuring George Dyson
talking about Project Orion:
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Here are some books by George Dyson:
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By George Dyson
Penguin Books Ltd
Paperback (368 pages)
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The race to the moon dominated space flight during the the 1960s yet, during the late 1950s and early 1960s, the US Government sponsored a project that could possibly have sent 150 people on expeditions to Mars or Saturn. The project was code-named "Orion" and centred upon the effort to develop a fast, manoeuvrable, nuclear-powered space vehicle for long-range voyages in space. The proposed 4000-ton spaceship would be propelled by nuclear bombs but, strictly classified, the project was never given a chance to succeed or fail - due partly to its apparent absurdity - but its mix of sublime physics, madcap engineering, and a cast of Cold War warriors and would-be inter-galactic engineers made the mission a tantalising "what if" story. In this book George Dyson, son of physicist Freeman Dyson, one of the original project team, pieces together the story his father could only tell him in fragments at the time. |
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By George Dyson
Paperback (368 pages)
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The improbable story of the wildest idea-a space craft powered by hydrogen bombs-to come out of the space race.
It was the late 1950s. The Cold War was raging. Sputnik had made its voyage and the space race was on. In America, it was the age of tail fins and "duck and cover," but it was also a time of big ideas and dreams. On his way to school one day, George Dyson learned of a truly fantastical idea: massive space vehicles that would be powered by explosions of multiple hydrogen bombs. Among the brilliant minds behind this project was George's father, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson.
Project Orion chronicles this fascinating episode in U.S. scientific research, while capturing a unique time in American history and culture. The project brought together a cadre of brilliant physicists, the first such assemblage since the Manhattan Project of fifteen years earlier. In an idyllic seaside community in southern California-the very picture of 1950s suburban prosperity-a handful of scientists, tackled a massive project that required the ingenuity of an engineer and the vision of a great theoretician. Their work-ambitious but ultimately futile-took place against the political and cultural backdrop of the Cold War, when nuclear technology spelled both promise and terror.
Dyson's prodigious historical and scientific research, combined with his personal reminiscences and connections, make for a lively, richly detailed narrative.
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By George Dyson
PENGUIN USA
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