New Prometheus is a space rocket from Isaac Asimov's science-fiction short story "Trends."
About New Prometheus[]
New Prometheus is the second rocket built by John Harman and his team after the failure of the Prometheus.
Constructed over five years with a small group of trusted engineers, New Prometheus was launched in 1978 on a successful free return trajectory around the Moon. It was developed in secret due to ongoing restrictions imposed by Eldredge's followers and the Federal Scientific Research Investigatory Bureau, including the Easter Edict forbidding independent research. The rocket successfully completed the lunar trajectory and landed near the Potomac River, marking humanity's first successful Moon flight and cementing Harman's legacy as a pioneering scientist.