The Exploration of SpaceTemple Press, 1951 - 198 pagini |
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Pagina 48
... reach speeds of perhaps 15,000 m.p.h. and heights of 2,000 miles , but they would be unable to reach circular velocity and so would have to return to Earth . To get into an orbit we should need something like the two- step rocket ...
... reach speeds of perhaps 15,000 m.p.h. and heights of 2,000 miles , but they would be unable to reach circular velocity and so would have to return to Earth . To get into an orbit we should need something like the two- step rocket ...
Pagina 77
... reach orbital velocity . In the case of the Moon , this is 3,700 m.p.h. ( thus a V.2 rocket could quite easily become a lunar sub - satellite ! ) . The ship might then be refuelled either by a tanker from Earth which had been waiting ...
... reach orbital velocity . In the case of the Moon , this is 3,700 m.p.h. ( thus a V.2 rocket could quite easily become a lunar sub - satellite ! ) . The ship might then be refuelled either by a tanker from Earth which had been waiting ...
Pagina 95
... reach 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 ...
... reach 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 ...
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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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