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| Retard-Jets | ||
| Rockets to slow down. |
| Minutes later our retard-jets — simple atomic rockets, not our overdrive engines — were checking our fall toward Damon. |
| Technovelgy from Brother Worlds,
by Raymond Z. Gallun. Published by Thrilling Wonder Stories in 1951 Additional resources -
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Jules Verne originated this idea, essential to space travel; see retro-rockets from From the Earth to the Moon (1867).
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