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| Rocket Racing | ||
| Use of reaction mass vehicles for races held within the solar system. |
| They'd given out the course that morning. We were to head out from Kor, point straight at Jupiter with a climb out of the plane of the ecliptic, drive down and hit a beacon rocket they were holding on a direct line with the big planet, forty million miles this side of him; that made about an even three-hundred-million-mile course from Mars, out and back, figured for eight days at a constant acceleration and deceleration of two gravities. It had been advertised as the longest and toughest race in rocket history, and they were certainly living up to the publicity. |
| From Habit,
by Lester del Rey. Published by Astounding in 1939 Additional resources -
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