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"I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
- Isaac Asimov

Rocketeering  
  Racing around in rockets  

Rocketeering, you know, is a lot more than just blasting the jets and lancing straight up and out into cosmic space. Have you ever seen a man-carrying skycraft that didn’t take a run? The old aeroplane, autogyro, helicopter — which didn’t simply blast into the air, but ac- celerated slowly upward — liquid-powered rocket or gyrotomic? Spaceships must also take a run, unless you want the human cargo inside to suffer a miniature egg-scrambling at every take-off.

Steinfahl, of course, used the predestined method of checking recoil and thrust-pressure in later rockets: the old twin hull idea. But that necessitated a freely suspended inner chamber, plus intricate hydraulic shock absorbers connected to the outer hull.

Technovelgy from Ra For The Rajah, by John Victor Peterson.
Published by Astounding Science Fiction in 1938
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See also rocketeer from Sunward Flight (1943) by Leo Zagat, in the sense of a person who pilots rockets.

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