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

StoryLevelMotivation
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.