RE: Turning Explosions Into Thrust

[tobixen]

I fail to understand how chemical explosions can give more trust than a conventional chemical rocket.

At the other hand, nuclear pulse propulsion - propelling a spaceship through nuclear bombs - may make sense since we so far haven't found a way to "tame" the fusion process.

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[tobixen]

Nuclear pulse propulsion is certainly interesting, but it would face the same problems nuclear energy itself faces - it sounds scary and honestly would only be useful once in space for the most part because of it.

Indeed. The concept of lifting up a megasized rocket directly from earth could work out in the 50s or 60s, but not today. Anyway, if we are to scale out space travels, I think we need to think beyond chemical rockets (explosive or conventional).