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Subject: Re: space whoopee and whoops...
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Date: Fri, 2-Aug-85 13:33:09 EDT
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From: jrv@Mitre-Bedford


> _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) ...

No, I believe she was in the arms of her husband at the time, though.

>                                                 ...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."

As I remember, he merely adjusted the artificial gravity.

				 - Jim Van Zandt