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One of Heinlein's juvenile novels (Have Spacesuit, Will Travel?) describes TFA's concept of accelerating at 1g until the halfway mark, then doing a "skew flip m
by dctoedt 5y ago
One of Heinlein's juvenile novels (Have Spacesuit, Will Travel?) describes TFA's concept of accelerating at 1g until the halfway mark, then doing a "skew flip maneuver" (I think that was the phrase Heinlein used) to decelerate at 1g. [0]
[0] https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2241027 https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/2241027