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"If you turn away from the natural gifts that God has given you, or the universe has given you, you're going to grow old too soon."
- Ray Bradbury
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| Rocketeering | ||
| Racing around in rockets |
| Rocketeering, you know, is a lot more
than just blasting the jets and lancing
straight up and out into cosmic space.
Have you ever seen a man-carrying skycraft that didn’t take a run? The old
aeroplane, autogyro, helicopter — which
didn’t simply blast into the air, but ac-
celerated slowly upward — liquid-powered rocket or gyrotomic? Spaceships
must also take a run, unless you want
the human cargo inside to suffer a miniature egg-scrambling at every take-off.
Steinfahl, of course, used the predestined method of checking recoil and thrust-pressure in later rockets: the old twin hull idea. But that necessitated a freely suspended inner chamber, plus intricate hydraulic shock absorbers connected to the outer hull. |
| Technovelgy from Ra For The Rajah,
by John Victor Peterson. Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1938 Additional resources -
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See also rocketeer from Sunward Flight (1943) by Leo Zagat, in the sense of a person who pilots rockets.
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