| 单词 | ferry rocket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasferry rocket b. Science Fiction and Astronautics. A spacecraft used, esp. repeatedly, to transport passengers and cargo over a relatively short distance, as between an orbiting craft and a planet's surface. In early use more fully ferry rocket. Cf. shuttle n.1 8c. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > module or capsule landing craft1940 ferry1951 capsule1954 space capsule1954 module1961 service module1961 Lem1962 moonbug1963 1951 A. C. Clarke Exploration of Space 78 At the end of these manœuvres, which would occupy only a few hours, it would be back in a stable, circular orbit waiting to be refuelled and serviced, and the crew could be taken down to Earth by one of the winged ‘ferry’ rockets. 1952 Space Sci. Fiction Sept. 66/2 It was easy, too, to enter the planet Grekh; you just boarded an interworld ferry from either of the two sister-planets. 1960 F. Gaynor Dict. Aerospace 90 Ferry rocket, the final step of the planned piloted space vehicle, designed for transporting personnel between earth and the terminal orbit. 1969 Times 3 June Suppl. p. iii/8 The two-stage module—the disposable landing ferry that takes the astronauts from their circling space~craft to the lunar surface—is at the heart of the American plans to land two men on the moon. 1990 Flight Internat. 25 July 6/1 Cosmonauts Anatoli Solovyov and Alexander Balandin fixed two..panels back on to the side of the descent capsule of their Soyuz TM9 ferry. 2012 B. W. Aldiss Finches of Mars xvii. 92 The ferry carried the new exiles from Armstrong up to the Confu, waiting in orbit. < as lemmas |
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