"Space travel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sighted a few minutes later but it was another three hours before a service ship could be readied and got away without load to allow it as much operating margin as possible. Getting a man aboard was yet another matter. At this stage of space travel no maneuver of this nature had ever been accomplished outside of theory. Fuel-thrust-mass ratios were still a thing of pretty close reckoning, and the service lift ships were simply not ...
— Far from Home • J.A. Taylor
... went on in the same vein. "I admit it's confusing, but it's also true. My clothes weren't made on Earth." He chuckled then, deep in his throat. "I don't blame you for being confused. I know how I would feel if I met an extraterrestrial being before space travel was ...
— Prelude to Space • Robert W. Haseltine
... girl he loved, and men like The Chief, a rugged Indian steelworker, and Mike, a midget who made up for his size by brains, would have to fight with their bare hands to make man's age old dream of space travel come true! ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... canvas, aileron. natation^, swimming; fin, flipper, fish's tail. aerostation^, aerostatics^, aeronautics; balloonery^; balloon &c 273; ballooning, aviation, airmanship; flying, flight, volitation^; wing, pinion; rocketry, space travel, astronautics, orbital mechanics, orbiting. voyage, sail, cruise, passage, circumnavigation, periplus^; headway, sternway, leeway; fairway. mariner &c 269. flight, trip; shuttle, run, airlift. V. sail; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... efficient power-storage device rested the success or failure of space travel itself. That device and the power it stored were for sale by Interplanetary ... and, to all practical purposes, by ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak |
