Your mission for today

[james_davis_nicoll]

Design a starship with 1950s and early 1960s level technology.

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they could explain the launch as an H-bomb test, perhaps of an exotic kind. Perhaps launch it over the Pacific during the day so that fewer people will witness the strangely regular flashes of light as it climbs to orbit.