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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... meteoroids . These are , for the most part , grains of dust which have been in the solar system since its formation ... meteoroid which has ever been mea- sured corresponds to a dust grain moving in a circular orbit around the Sun , but ...
... meteoroids . These are , for the most part , grains of dust which have been in the solar system since its formation ... meteoroid which has ever been mea- sured corresponds to a dust grain moving in a circular orbit around the Sun , but ...
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... meteoroid carries , because of its velocity , a great deal of energy , but fortunately almost all mete- oroids are ... meteoroid that even in a voyage of years a spacecraft records almost no data . For relatively large meteoroids , the ...
... meteoroid carries , because of its velocity , a great deal of energy , but fortunately almost all mete- oroids are ... meteoroid that even in a voyage of years a spacecraft records almost no data . For relatively large meteoroids , the ...
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... meteoroid is converted to heat and light . 3 The Prairie Network data agree with those of the other two methods quite well for meteoroids of about ten grams mass . They diverge from the other data for different masses , probably be ...
... meteoroid is converted to heat and light . 3 The Prairie Network data agree with those of the other two methods quite well for meteoroids of about ten grams mass . They diverge from the other data for different masses , probably be ...
Contents
A LETTER FROM SPACE | 11 |
THE PLANETARY | 34 |
ISLANDS IN SPACE | 61 |
Copyright | |
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