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Orbit Jet – winged-tail rocket ship (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger) [71] Orion – saucer patrol craft in Raumpatrouille [72] Prometheus – Weyland Corporation scientific vessel [73] Raza – interstellar spaceship from the television series Dark Matter; Red Dwarf – The titular spaceship from the BBC sci-fi comedy series Red Dwarf [74]
The Bussard ramjet is a theoretical method of spacecraft propulsion for interstellar travel.A fast moving spacecraft scoops up hydrogen from the interstellar medium using an enormous funnel-shaped magnetic field (ranging from kilometers to many thousands of kilometers in diameter); the hydrogen is compressed until thermonuclear fusion occurs, which provides thrust to counter the drag created ...
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: 1996: Satellite of Love [38] The Noah's Ark Principle: 1984: Florida Arklab [50] Oblivion: 2013: The Tet [51] Planet of the Apes: 2001: Oberon [52] Project Moonbase: 1953 [53] Queen of Outer Space: 1958 [54] Red Planet: 2000: High Orbit Space Station / Mars-1 [35] [55] Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles ...
An early appearance of an Orion-style nuclear pulse propelled rocket in science fiction was in the science fiction novel Empire of the Atom written by A. E. van Vogt in 1956. In this novel there is a post-atomic-war interplanetary empire called the Empire of Lynn that uses Orion-type nuclear rockets for interplanetary spaceflight.
Rocket on cover of Other Worlds sci-fi magazine, September 1951. Space travel, [1]: 69 [2]: 209–210 [3]: 511–512 or space flight [2]: 200–201 [4] (less often, starfaring or star voyaging [2]: 217, 220 ) is a science fiction theme that has captivated the public and is almost archetypal for science fiction. [4]
On September 29, 1979, [5] the Interstellar Exploration Agency launches a Japanese rocket ship, the JX-1 Hawk, into space on a nine-month journey to investigate Saturn.At its conclusion, however, the crew is given a new mission after scientists discover a runaway star, which the International Astronomical Union nicknamed "Gorath", is somehow running amok.
From Cape Shark in the Australian desert, the United Nations launches an atomic rocket on a crewed Moon mission, but one of the engines malfunctions. The American pilot, John MacLaren, disengages the escape capsule and returns to Earth. However, the atomic booster continues, eventually exploding in the Delta asteroid cluster.
This period is sometimes described as the 'classic' or 'golden' era of science fiction theate. With at least 204 sci-fi films produced, it holds the record for the largest number of science fiction produced per decade. Much of the production was in a low-budget form, targeted at a teenage audience.