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Sputnik really freaked out Americans who believed in American exceptionalism. I wonder what other harebrained space stuff that's unknown to the public due to "national security" the US was involved in the early 1960s. "National security" actually meaning "national pride" because even 60 years later - it would be embarrassing for the public to know about it.
I love how Wikipedia paraphrases the concept - "This plan was batshit."
What did MOOSE stand for?
The professionalization of acronyms is loser shit
Given how so many other truly batshit-crazy projects and proposals from that era are public knowledge, it would have to be something really embarassing.
Another classic that also went through preliminary hardware testing was Project Orion. It has nothing to do with the current Orion capsule being developed for launch on the SLS. It was a proposal to propel spacecraft using the shock waves from a series of nuclear bomb explosions. And yes, there's no air in space, the shock waves would be made up of the material of the bomb casing itself. Engineers actually built small-scale mockups using conventional explosives and put them on test stands.
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