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Article #6985Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
From: Peter J. Scott
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:09
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:09
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In article <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com>, ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes: > On the other hand, remember that Forbidden Planet, in the 1950's, > began with the narrator's voice saying, "In the last decade of the > 21st Century, Mankind reached the Moon." Rober Heinlein was a bit > more optimistic in "The Man Who Sold the Moon," placing the event > in 1979 but, of course, no one believed *that*. Just watched the circa 1940 movie of Wells' "Shape of Things to Come," and they depicted the first moon-shot in *2036*. I don't remember what it said in the book, but the movie makers were certainly at liberty to use their own date if they wanted. -- This is news. This is your | Peter Scott, NASA/JPL/Caltech brain on news. Any questions? | (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV!pjs From: pjs@euclid.JPL.NASA.GOV (Peter J. Scott) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they? Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:09:01 GMT Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA/Caltech Lines: 15 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1k16rdINNc7h@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.110438.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com> Reply-To: pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov NNTP-Posting-Host: euclid.jpl.nasa.gov