Atoms For Space
Going Boldly
This Means War
Its Alive
100
This machine directly converts heat from nuclear decay into electricity.
Its Fact!
Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (RTG)
100
NASA has purposely crashed spacecraft.
Its Fact!
Galileo and Cassini were dropped into Jupiter and Saturn to help keep the area clean
100
The DS-1 was equipped with the most power laser ever built.
Its Fiction!
The Death Star from Star Wars
100
This creature has 9 brains and 3 hearts.
Its Fact!
Octopi have 3 hearts and 9 brains
200
NASA has put nuclear reactors in orbit.
Its Fact!
Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power
200
A plan to send a probe to another star using only sunlight as propulsion.
Its Fact!
200
The Soviets sent their cosmonauts into space armed.
Its Fact!
TP-82 Survival Pistol
200
It is the perfect organism.
Its Fiction!
Xenomorph from the Alien series
300
NASA has built rocket engines built around nuclear reactors
Its Fact!
Project Rover
300
This spacecraft uses more than a thousand engines to travel to another star.
Its Fiction!
The Hail Mary, from Andy Weir’s Project Hail Mary
300
The MAC gun can put a round clean through a capital ship.
Its Fiction!
MAC Cannon from the Halo Series
300
This silicon-based creature lives under nearly 30 atmospheres of pressure, and heated to 410 degrees Fahrenheit.
Its Fiction!
Eridians from Project Hail Mary
400
A plan to use nuclear bombs to propel spacecraft.
Its Fact!
Project Orion
400
NASA has sent rotorcraft to other planets.
Its Fact! - Ingenuity to Mars and Dragonfly to Titan
400
The Soviet Union designed a laser pistol designed specifically for space combat.
Its Fact!
400
These creatures feed off of radiation.
Its Fact!
At least three species of fungi found in Chernobyl
500
Disposable satellites armed with nukes to emit EMPs towards Earth.
Its Fiction!
Goldeneye in the James Bond series
500
NASA thought about sending astronauts to Venus.
Its Fact! -
Apollo Applications Program
Apollo-Venus Flyby
500
Satellites armed with massive tungsten rods, dropped to destroy a target with sheer kinetic energy alone
Its Fact!
Hypervelocity Rod Bundles
500
This creature uses magnetic fields to keep itself together.
Its Fiction!
The Magnadon from Dr. Who
