The Exploration of SpaceTemple Press, 1951 - 198 pagini |
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... Earth's surface on the way into space and much more important - it offers a means of and — much making a safe landing on the return . This thin blanket of air , without which life as we know it would be impossible , is held tightly to ...
... Earth's surface on the way into space and much more important - it offers a means of and — much making a safe landing on the return . This thin blanket of air , without which life as we know it would be impossible , is held tightly to ...
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... Earth . And in just the same way the planets revolve round the Sun , prisoners of its gravitational field yet always maintaining their distance . The speed necessary to move in such an orbit near the bottom of the crater ( i.e. near the ...
... Earth . And in just the same way the planets revolve round the Sun , prisoners of its gravitational field yet always maintaining their distance . The speed necessary to move in such an orbit near the bottom of the crater ( i.e. near the ...
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... Earth so that it would neither rise nor set . An object at a greater distance would move more slowly than the Earth on its axis and so would rise in the east and set in the west , as do all the celestial bodies . Inside this limit of ...
... Earth so that it would neither rise nor set . An object at a greater distance would move more slowly than the Earth on its axis and so would rise in the east and set in the west , as do all the celestial bodies . Inside this limit of ...
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FRONTISPIECE Automatic Rocket Surveying Mars PLATE I HighAltitude ManCarrying Rocket | 3 |
Spaceships Refuelling In Free Orbit | 4 |
The Earth and its Neighbours | 9 |
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