Word: rendezvouses
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After exploring the nearby parts of the moon as thoroughly as their oxygen, supplies and equipment permit, the crew of the bug will blast off and rendezvous with the spaceship orbiting above them. After joining the two spacecraft and making everything shipshape, the reunited crew will boost themselves out of...
LOR enthusiasts estimate that a single advanced Saturn booster will be powerful enough to make the voyage direct, skipping the costly and difficult rendezvous in earth orbit.
All plans to land on the moon are necessarily uncertain. No manned satellite has yet approached another orbiting object, or even attempted to. The formidable problems of bringing two manned satellites together and making them join without damage are still far from solution, and new, unimagined difficulties are sure to...
Rendezvous on a lunar orbit promises to be even more difficult.
The crews of satellites circling the earth will be in constant communication with ground stations and with each other, even when they are on opposite sides of the earth. Their orbits will be analyzed by computers and their positions reported accurately every few minutes. The crews will be told what...