Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Soon we will be able to travel to Mars, to Pluto, to Venus," a professor told his Russian students. "Are there any questions?" A student in the back of the class raised his hand. ''When," he asked, "can we travel to Vienna?"
Evading the technological mumbo jumbo of most spacemen of letters, Author Bradbury concentrates instead on the post-atomic-war homesickness of displaced Earthlings, or the pioneering wonder of planet hopping. An unexpected religiosity mars several of these tales and suggests that science fiction may be catering to a new brand...
Another control problem is how to supply small bursts of power to alter the course of a rocket deep in space, to land it softly on the moon or swing it around Mars. Fuel systems now in use do not operate efficiently at low throttle, and once the fuel is...
As the space art improves, instrumented vehicles will make soft landings on the moon, braked gently to the airless surface by retrorockets. Once they get there, they can look around with television eyes, telling the earth what they see. When the probes get good enough to tackle the planets, they...
An unsolved problem is communication. It will do no good to send a space probe to Mars if communication with it is lost, as happened to Lunik soon after it passed the moon. Radio signals can cover any desired distance if given sufficient power, but the only power sources now...