Jackass Flats, Nevada home to American space program

Blair152

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I first heard about this six years ago on----never mind. Anyway, Jackass Flats, (yes, that's its actual name), Nevada, was supposed to be the base of
the American space program back in the 1960s. This would be the nuclear,
not conventional, space program. If Project Orion hadn't been cancelled, it
probably would have been launched from there. The site was proposed as a
possible museum back in the '90s.
 
ahh Jackass flats aka Nevada Fields

SF autor like Karl Herbert Scheer launchs his hero from there in Space :cool:
in his ZBV series Nevada Fields replace Cape Canaveral (wat is a museum)
and is bigges launch facility for US nuclear rockets to space station or to Moon
also in his series Perry Rhodan, the hero take off from Nevada Fiels to Moon

OTL Nevada Fields was major test site for nuclear engine
like NERVA (nuclear rocket engines) or Tory A (nuclear Ramjet-engine)
during ORION study (nuclear bomb puls engine) they consider
GROUND launch from Nevada Fields, sounds like Dr. Strangelove: the other ride on ze bomb...
 

Blair152

Banned
ahh Jackass flats aka Nevada Fields

SF autor like Karl Herbert Scheer launches his hero from there in Space :cool:
in his ZBV series Nevada Fields replace Cape Canaveral (what is a museum)
and is biggest launch facility for US nuclear rockets to space station or to Moon
also in his series Perry Rhodan, the hero take off from Nevada Fiels to Moon

OTL Nevada Fields was major test site for nuclear engine
like NERVA (nuclear rocket engines) or Tory A (nuclear Ramjet-engine)
during ORION study (nuclear bomb puls engine) they consider
GROUND launch from Nevada Fields, sounds like Dr. Strangelove: the other ride on ze bomb...
It was used to test cruise missiles. Go to www.en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Jackass Flats, Nevada for more information.
 
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Blair152

Banned
ahh Jackass flats aka Nevada Fields

SF autor like Karl Herbert Scheer launches his hero from there in Space :cool:
in his ZBV series Nevada Fields replace Cape Canaveral (what is a museum)
and is biggest launch facility for US nuclear rockets to space station or to Moon
also in his series Perry Rhodan, the hero take off from Nevada Fiels to Moon

OTL Nevada Fields was major test site for nuclear engine
like NERVA (nuclear rocket engines) or Tory A (nuclear Ramjet-engine)
during ORION study (nuclear bomb puls engine) they consider
GROUND launch from Nevada Fields, sounds like Dr. Strangelove: the other ride on ze bomb...
It was used to test cruise missiles. Go to www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackass Flats, Nevada, for more information.
 
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