| Race to the Planets (Mechanix Illustrated, July 1947) | |||||||||||||||
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At 50,000 feet, speeding at 500 mph, the Moon- bound space ship leaves the back of the carrier plane. Its rockets thunder. It is on its own! |
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Lowering atomic space ship to back of plane which will release it at high speed in the stratosphere. |
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Interior during the "free flight" period of trip, when travel is by momentum only. The crew seem no longer to be subject to the law of gravity! |
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