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- 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
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- References: <1993Jan21.102943.5124@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.120247.11867@abo.fi> <1993Jan21.110438.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> <ewright.727724117@convex.convex.com>
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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.
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- 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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