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![]() A clever, and realistic, strategy. This is an early use of this idea; I can't think of an earlier one.
Robert Heinlein described this idea in his 1941 classic Methuselah's Children:
He figured the relative vector, gunned the gig, flipped, and gunned to brake-homed-in three minutes off estimate, feeling smug. He cradled the gig, hurried inside...
See also Cargo for Colony 6 (1958) by Christopher Anvil:
The whole ship sprang forward, ramming New far back in the acceleration couch and choking the breath out of him. There was a high, squeaking screech, and his insides seemed to twist sidewise and up. A nauseous sense of being wrenched two ways at once gripped him, and he was swallowed in a rush of blackness. His last dwindling sensations were of a heavy crash and an abrupt silence...
"...just exactly what . . . did you do just then?”
"Spun the ship like a gyro,” said Hughes proudly, "jammed on full forward acceleration, then gave her everything I had to jerk the tail side-wise and around in a new direction. She really jumped, and then I improvised a little.” He chortled.
The 2016 series The Expanse is very true-to-life in space; this maneuver is shown. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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