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From: wscott@joevax.UUCP (W. Scott Meeks)
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Subject: Re: space whoopee and whoops...
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 11:04:37 EDT
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_Time_Enough_for_Love_ by Heinlein had an interesting scene involving a delivery
aboard a spaceship.  For the most part, travel took place in zero g, but during
the delivery Lazarus Long (the protagonist of the whole book, I don't remember
the woman's name but I think she was his current wife) fired the ships rockets
(actually I think they were variable thrusters so that the transition was
smooth) at the appropriate moment so that the baby, in effect, had a "gravity
assist."