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- From: buenneke@monty.rand.org (Richard Buenneke)
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- Subject: Re: 2001/2010 Rocket Engines - What are they?
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 18:32:46 GMT
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- I can't recall the technical details, but I seem to remember that the
- Leonov was powered by a Sakharov drive. In the book, Sakharov was
- rehabilitated by a more democratic Soviet government. When he returned from
- his internal exile to the closed city of Gorky, he brought along thw work
- he'd done on a fusion power system.
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- On this bit of future history (written in the early 1980s), Clarke batted
- .333. Sakharov was rehabilitated. Unfortunately, he didn't invent a
- fusion engine before his death. And while a vehicle named Leonev may
- someday fly to Jupiter, it won't be carrying Hammer-and-Sickle markings.
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