nuclear powered spaceship theme
There is a spacecraft that relies on some form of nuclear energy (e.g. nuclear fission or nuclear fusion) for propulsion.
7 total · 2 major · 5 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Deep Impact (1998) | major | The United States and Russia worked together to construct the Messiah, an experimental nuclear powered vessel loosely patterned on the space shuttle, in orbit and a team of astronauts subsequently fly it out to intercept the comet. |
| movie: Destination Moon (1950) | major | The United States Department of Defense and American private industry team up to send an atomic powered, single-stage-to-orbit rocketship to the Moon. |
| movie: 12 to the Moon (1960) | minor | The astronauts blasted off to the Moon in an enormous atomic powered rocker ship. |
| movie: Flight to Mars (1951) | minor | The crew flew on a sleek, nuclear powered rocketship to Mars and back. |
| movie: H G Wells The Shape of Things to Come (1979) | minor | Jason and Kim's spaceship attained relativistic speeds using nuclear fuel. |
| movie: Lost Continent (1951) | minor | A scientist developed an atomic-powered rocket that was sent off and vanished without a trace. |
| movie: Man in the Moon (1960) | minor | William Blood flew to what appeared to be the Moon in a nuclear powered rocketship. |