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| Rocket Tug | ||
| The equivalent of a tug boat for space ships. |
| WHEN the great globe was completed, and stocked with all its multitudinous machines, twenty rocket tugs towed it from its Earth hangar out into space, set it upon a previously calculated orbit a million miles beyond the Moon, gave it the necessary orbital impetus, and set it free. |
| Technovelgy from Crystalized Thought,
by Nat Schachner. Published by Astounding Stories in 1937 Additional resources -
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Compare to pushpots from Murray Leinster's Space Tug (1953).
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