The High Frontier: Human Colonies in SpaceMonograph on future habitation and human settlement in outer space - describes possible habitats for humanity in space colonys, and includes the transcript of a USA congressional hearing on "aerospace technology and national needs". Illustrations and references. |
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Page 47
... gravity might be prone to failure when gravity was restored . We do not want to make emigration into space a one - way trip , without the option of return at will . Curiously , we all have the experience of what amounts to zero - gravity ...
... gravity might be prone to failure when gravity was restored . We do not want to make emigration into space a one - way trip , without the option of return at will . Curiously , we all have the experience of what amounts to zero - gravity ...
Page 106
... gravity ; yet much of the recreation in which the resi- dents of space indulge will surely take advantage of a new option we can never experience on Earth : to have any gravity they like , simply by riding or walking to the right ...
... gravity ; yet much of the recreation in which the resi- dents of space indulge will surely take advantage of a new option we can never experience on Earth : to have any gravity they like , simply by riding or walking to the right ...
Page 107
... gravity will not be more than a tenth or a twentieth that of Earth , almost every imaginable variety of human - powered flying machine , including some of Leonardo's , will work . We can imagine elderly ladies and gentlemen taking their ...
... gravity will not be more than a tenth or a twentieth that of Earth , almost every imaginable variety of human - powered flying machine , including some of Leonardo's , will work . We can imagine elderly ladies and gentlemen taking their ...
Contents
A LETTER FROM SPACE | 11 |
THE PLANETARY | 34 |
ISLANDS IN SPACE | 61 |
Copyright | |
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