1950's Spaceships

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by vierasmarius

The nuclear saltwater rocket is already considered to be cinematically efficient. You might tone down its risky side effects (ie, Volatile system and fuel, dangerous exhaust)... or maybe not. In fact, I think a 1950's-era cavalier attitude towards radiation fits perfectly with it, even if the engine itself is potentially quite dangerous.

What about the program where they secretly gave pregnant women radioactive iodine isotopes? Yeah the '50s attitude toward radiation pretty much allows salt-water rockets to take off every hour from every major city's downtown spaceport.