To Mars By A-Bomb (film)
| To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion | |
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| Genre | Documentary film |
| Written by | Christopher Sykes |
| Directed by | Christopher Sykes |
| Narrated by | Jonathan Kydd |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | One-episode (about one-hour) |
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| Producer(s) | Stephen Wilkinson |
| Editor(s) | Christopher Swayne |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Distributor | BBC |
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To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion is a 2003 BBC documentary film about the history of Project Orion.
The feature revolves around the top scientists who wanted to build a nuclear bomb-powered spaceship to visit Mars and Saturn.
The one-hour film was written and directed by Christopher Skyes.
Participants
The documentary film is narrated by Jonathan Kydd and includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name):
- Jaromir Astl (Explosives Engineer)
- Jeremy Bernstein (Physicist)
- Arthur C. Clarke (Physicist and Author)
- Ed Creutz (Physicist)
- Freeman Dyson (Theoretical Physicist)
- George Dyson (Author)
- David Weiss (Test Pilot)
- Edward B. Giller (USAF)
- Jonathan Kydd (narrator)
- Thomas Macken (Aeronautical Engineer)
- Harris Mayer (Physicist)
- Donald I. Prickett (USAF)
- Johndale Solem (Theoretical Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Theodore B. Taylor (Leader, Project Orion)
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