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== Trivia == | == Trivia == | ||
*[[Wikipedia:Project Orion|Project Orion]] was also a spacecraft program in the real world. It was the first engineering design study of spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Its supporters felt that it had great potential for space travel, but it lost political approval because of concerns with fallout from its propulsion. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project. | *[[Wikipedia:Project Orion|Project Orion]] was also a spacecraft program in the real world. It was the first engineering design study of spacecraft powered by nuclear pulse propulsion. Its supporters felt that it had great potential for space travel, but it lost political approval because of concerns with fallout from its propulsion. The Partial Test Ban Treaty of 1963 is generally acknowledged to have ended the project. | ||
*[[Spartan-I]] | *[[Spartan-I]]s seem to be the only known Humans to refer to their successors as "Spartan 2.0s" rather than "[[SPARTAN-IIs]]." | ||
*The ORION Project was apparently classified by [[Office of Naval Intelligence#Section Zero|Section Zero]]<ref name="HGN"/>, as even in 2524 the majority of UNSC personnel had no knowledge about it. | *The ORION Project was apparently classified by [[Office of Naval Intelligence#Section Zero|Section Zero]]<ref name="HGN"/>, as even in 2524 the majority of UNSC personnel had no knowledge about it. | ||
*It is unknown how Spartan- | *It is unknown how Spartan-Is were codenamed or even if they were codenamed at all. It seems unlikely they adopted formalized codenames, given the fact that all known Spartan-I's used their normal names in operational circumstances. | ||
==Sources== | ==Sources== | ||