Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines

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From: John Roberts
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:05

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-From: mrw9e@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Michael Robert Williams)
-Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
-Date: 21 Jan 93 18:02:38 GMT
-Organization: University of Virginia

-I don't know about the "Leonov", but I remember reading something about 
-Clarke's intentions for the Discovery's engines. He wanted to use a pulsed
-nuclear drive (something like Orion, I think) and tried to convince
-Stanley Kubrick to show the Discovery's engines pulsing on and off as
-the drive fired. It's been a while since I saw the film, but I don't
-remember seeing anything like that.

As I recall, they don't show the Discovery's engines firing until "2010".
I don't think Kubrick was involved in that movie.

John Roberts
roberts@cmr.ncsl.nist.gov

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