The Project Daedalus starship designed by the British Interplanetary Society in the 1970s was propelled by
A) chemical rockets
B) nuclear fusion reactors
C) nuclear fission reactors
D) the annihilation of matter and antimatter

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Project Daedalus was a theoretical design for an interstellar spacecraft that would be propelled by nuclear fusion, specifically using a series of fusion explosions to propel the spacecraft to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

The Project Daedalus Starship Designed by the British Interplanetary Society