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A Question of Salvage by Malcolm Jameson:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
'He just couldn't think of life without the joy and lift that comes of plunging into space with the controls of a thousand thunders under the fingertips. What surface job offered the thrill of hand-jetting across ten miles of bucking emptiness to make fast a line to an inert wreck ?'

(From A Question of Salvage)
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an invention:
Hand-Jetting Making use of hand-held rockets or other reaction devices to move through space.
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Spacedog Experienced hands on space ships.
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Telescribe Creates a written record of distress signals and other reports.
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