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Term: Category =   "Space Transportation"

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1.	Flying Mass Driver
	Context: As an alternative to the earthbased launch rail, could high flying airships,multiple-hull giant zeppeliners, be used as launch platforms forintermediate stages of the surface-orbit route? More ...

2.	High-G Fluids
	Description: The "high g trick" is done like this:First you put the poor pilot into a special breathing fluid (it exists!)where he will experience the feeling of drowning, as the fluid gets in tohis lungs. Then ...

3.	Interstellar Generation Ship
	Description: The novel begins with a plan to capture a comet (Halley's in this case) and not only study it in extreme detail throughout its 70 year joumey, but to capture it and push it into a more convenient ...

4.	Launch Tower Catapult
	Description: While the platform decribed in another ITSF Fact Sheet(cheap launching to space) by constructing a huge artifical tower with a plateau 10KM on top would be too large an engineering feat. I think it ...

5.	Mass Driver as First Acceleration Stage
	Description: EM and other powered mass drivers have been proposed by many, going back to Heinlein, and possibly even before him. Such technology is not feasible as a single stage to orbit launch system, but there ...