Brian Boru Dunne II (January 8, 1924 - November 30, 2017) was Project Orion's chief scientist. Dunne worked on explosive model tests in Point Loma, San Diego alongside Jerry Astl and Morris Scharff. He continued to work for General Atomics and later started his own firm called Ship Systems.[2]
Brian Dunne | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 8, 1924 Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| Died | November 30, 2017 (aged 93)[1] |
| Occupation | Aeronautical Engineer |
| Title | Orion's chief scientist |
Project Orion
editDunne was the chief experimental scientist on Project Orion. He worked on Project Orion as an experimentalist. Dunne and Howard Kratz set up a facility for firing explosive-driven plasma jets as sample pusher-plate targets, after explosive-driven flights were cancelled.[citation needed]
Media appearances
edit- History Undercover: Code Name Project Orion (1999) [3]
- To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion (BBC, 2003) [4]
References
edit- ^ "Brian Dunne". La Jolla Light. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
- ^ "Brian Boru Dunne II Obituary (1924 - 2017) La Jolla Light". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2022-03-08.
- ^ "History Undercover: Code Name Project Orion". IMDb.
- ^ "To Mars by A-Bomb: The Secret History of Project Orion". IMDb.