File:Nuking the Moon, and Other Secret Space Race Projects

My contribution to Project MAD, a Cold War YouTube collaboration! I only provided extremely brief overviews of the projects; more information can be found in my sources below!

Project MAD full playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjnwpaclU4wXW18I7joPDPXmfL1zepBNv

Also, check out recent announcements regarding nuclear propulsion! https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/nuclear-propulsion-could-help-get-humans-to-mars-faster

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-announces-nuclear-thermal-propulsion-reactor-concept-awards

More cancelled space race missions: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160304-the-space-missions-that-never-happened

Manned Orbiting Laboratory: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/declassified-u-s-military-s-secret-cold-war-space-project-revealed/

Main Source for A119 and Project Orion: Houghton, Vince. Nuking the Moon. Penguin Publishing Group. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GMTCYTW/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

Intro B-roll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1957-10-07_New_Moon.ogv https://images.nasa.gov/details-JPL-20180131-EXPLORs-0001-%2060th%20Anniversary%20Explorer%201%20The%20Beginning%20of%20the%20US%20Space%20Program

Project A119 Unclassified Document:

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB479/docs/EBB-Moon02.pdf

Project Orion Footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8Sv5y6iHUM

1968 Nuclear Propulsion footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDNX65d-FBY&t=647s

NERVA info: https://www.lanl.gov/science/NSS/issues/NSS-Issue1-2011.pdf

SDI Carl Sagan clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3EfWHgzMZA

Space Station Freedom sources: http://klabs.org/DEI/References/contents_detailed/meredith_1990/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpWK6WuIEc

ISS: https://images.nasa.gov/details-JSC_STS-132_FlyAround

📷 Images:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mushroom_cloud.svg

🎵 Music:

Sonata 17 by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4392-sonata-17 The Rule by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4506-the-rule Space 1990-B by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4398-space-1990-b License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

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