Everyone in Blogistan is talking about the next-gen NASA spacecraft Orion and the freshly inked contract with Lockheed Martin. Yeah, the Raumpatrouille Orion is way marvy, and the 50s-era “Project Orion” nuke ship is a fun Bad Idea, but I’m shocked that none of the pop-sci-cult watchers out there (and yes Boing Boing, I’m looking at you) namechecked the most notable Orion of all.
These mock-up pictures of what the 2001 Orion operation would have looked like are pretty cool too.