Project Timberwind aimed to develop nuclear thermal rockets. Initial funding by the Strategic Defense Initiative from 1987 through 1991 totaled $139 million...
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The schooner Timberwind is a historic former pilot boat, now berthed in Portland, Maine. Built in 1931, she served as a pilot boat (named Portland Pilot)...
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through 1991, the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) Office funded Project Timberwind, a non-rotating nuclear thermal rocket based on particle bed technology...
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the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory from 1955 through 1972. Project Timberwind (1987–1991), part of the Strategic Defense Initiative RD-0410, a Soviet...
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rockets serving as the in-space rocket stage influenced the 1990s Project Timberwind. NERVA "NUCLEAR ROCKETS: To Mars and Beyond Nuclear Rockets: Then and...
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historic schooners in its fleet in Bagheera and Wendameen built in Boothbay, Timberwind built in Portland and Heart's Desire built in South Freeport, as well...
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shattered. East of here, the tornado caused damage on the south end of the Timberwind subdivision before crossing the Flint River between Meridianville and...
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Timberwind (Schooner)...
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test a fully functional engine by 2005. This along with the military's Timberwind project revived the U.S. nuclear propulsion program for the first time...
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Timberwind (Schooner)...
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solid-state physics. In 1991, Aftergood exposed the classified Project Timberwind, an unacknowledged U.S. Department of Defense special access program to...
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