The Exploration of SpaceTemple Press, 1951 - 198 pagini |
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... escaping from the Earth is to build up escape velocity as quickly as possible— and then to cut the rockets and " coast " . A commonplace but accurate analogy is given by the cyclist who builds up enough speed on the level to take him ...
... escaping from the Earth is to build up escape velocity as quickly as possible— and then to cut the rockets and " coast " . A commonplace but accurate analogy is given by the cyclist who builds up enough speed on the level to take him ...
Pagina 95
... escape velocity . However , if the ship could build up all its speed in the horizontal direction , gravity would not produce any loss of speed whatsoever and one could reach escape velocity in as leisurely a fashion as one pleased ...
... escape velocity . However , if the ship could build up all its speed in the horizontal direction , gravity would not produce any loss of speed whatsoever and one could reach escape velocity in as leisurely a fashion as one pleased ...
Pagina 117
... escape velocity ( 5,200 m.p.h. as against Earth's 25,000 m.p.h. ) also makes this scheme much more attractive . Such a device would not be a gun in the usual sense of the word , but a horizontal or gently rising launching track ...
... escape velocity ( 5,200 m.p.h. as against Earth's 25,000 m.p.h. ) also makes this scheme much more attractive . Such a device would not be a gun in the usual sense of the word , but a horizontal or gently rising launching track ...
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Automatic Rocket Surveying Mars | 3 |
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