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"Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way."
- Robert Heinlein
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| Spacebag | ||
| A quick-and-dirty kind of space craft. |
| He propelled himself to the hatch that cut off the middle compartment; jabbed at the manual controls. It opened and he slid through. He had a plastic spacebag unstowed and half rigged before his Second reached him, sputtering, “But — but Colonel!”
“Move,” Steve told him with a grin. They sealed him into the bag and put him out, then nulled away...
 (Spacebag from 'MacGrees Hellcats' by CC MacApp) Number Nine, to whose course and velocity he was matched, hung dark and lifeless a few hundred yards away. He approached her slowly, watching his feeble radar screen for any of the hostile blips |
| Technovelgy from Gree's Hellcats,
by C.C. MacApp. Published by If: Worlds of Science Fiction in 1965 Additional resources -
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Compare to space bubbles (bubbs) from The Planet Strappers (1961) by Raymond Z. Gallun.
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