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...Mars & Back. Von Braun's Marsprojekt would be a very considerable effort. Forty-six three-stage rocket ships, weighing 6,400 tons each* at takeoff, would have to make 950 trips above the earth's atmosphere, carrying cargo (39.4 tons of pay load per trip) and fuel to build and stock the satellite filling station. On this base, ten orbit-to-orbit spaceships would be assembled. Taking off for Mars, they would establish a second filling station in an orbit around that planet. Enough fuel and supplies would remain to set 50 men down on Mars in three...
...pull of gravity for the first 9½ minutes) needed to propel a rocket into a permanent orbit around the earth? Perhaps, say the scientists-if the cabin is properly air-conditioned, if the passengers' heads are clamped into position to prevent a neck-snapping jolt during takeoff, if some kind of magnetic suits are provided to hold them to the floor when the familiar pull of gravity fades away. Could the weightless pilot, whipping through space at seven miles a second, depend on his sense of vision alone to keep his balance? Maybe. One of the doctors suggests...
Three hours after their takeoff, Swedish army planes picked them up over Malmö, escorted them in to nearby Bulltofta Airport. Said the girl: "We were fed up with the terror at home. It's good to breathe free air again...
...moment after the takeoff, soaring through the air at 50 m.p.h., Ski-Jumper Arne Hoel could hear nothing but the wind in his ears. Then he caught the roar of the crowd: 100,000 Norwegian heias (hurrahs) swelling up from the packed slopes of Holmenkollen jump, on the edge of Oslo Fjord. A Norwegian ski crowd can tell a fine leap long before the landing...
...space of a few heartbeats, Hoel's broad skis floated him against the press of the air. Then, at the last moment, his skis came gracefully down, smacked crisply into the packed snow, 226 ft. from the takeoff. The style judges thought it was a fine jump too. They gave Hoel (rhymes with pool) a score of 55.5 out of an "impossible...