Word: marse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon after the publication of Goddard's 1919 report, rocket enthusiasts began to clot together in little societies. The science of celestial mechanics (motions of the planets) had been highly developed by the astronomers. The astronauts took it over, added some features of their own. Long before World War...
With the problems of radio and TV transmission from outer-space satellites practically solved, we can at last look forward to laxative commercials from the region of Mars, and words from our sponsor on "How to Break the Habit" from the sphere of Venus. The Man in the Moon will...
It is due to enter an elliptical course between the earth and Mars, they said, taking 15 months to complete the swing around the sun that the earth completes in twelve.
Radio listeners, both professional and ham, sometimes hear signals that sound as if they came from a satellite. When they check, they find that no satellite was near them. Such signals need not originate in an unannounced Russian satellite or spaceship departing for Mars. According to Owen Garriott of Stanford...
Orbit to Orbit. Once free from the earth, the space sailer would fall into a solar orbit, use sunlight to waft it almost anywhere in the solar system. For such maneuvering it would need a way to change its sail's angle to the sunlight; Dr. Cotter believes that...