A spaceship must match its speed before it can connect with the station.
Does it sound unlikely that spaceships full of miners may someday travel to outer space?
In 1865, the French writer Jules Verne published a novel about three men who traveled in a spaceship to the moon.
In addition, your spaceship needs enough room in it to bring the valuable minerals back to Earth.
Just over one hundred years later, the USA successfully sent its three-man Apollo 11 spaceship to the surface of the moon.
Obviously such a journey for humans would be a voyage of no return, and is presently impossible without a way of producing the necessary air, food, and equipment on the spaceship.
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Imagine that you are traveling in aspaceshipand have learned that there is a mineral-rich asteroid heading your way.
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These latter even include using the solar wind to propel spaceships.
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You see there is a pretense this is just a naval station and you never know which is the pretense:spaceshipor navy.
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The last astronaut in thespaceshipgoes into the computer and shuts it down by taking out the memory modules.
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He delivers his message and leaves the earth, vanishing into hisspaceship.
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The children's response, understandably, was to make the classrooms look like something else - an anthropomorphic response - such as aspaceshipor an animal.
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There are also significant numbers of people who have ' seen ' alien spaceships.
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It is time we took the whole gamut of the world civilisation in this tiny, spinningspaceshipwe call the globe.
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The bridge is so electronic that it looks like something out of aspaceship.
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The anthropological arrogance of 20th century man in his tinpot motor-cars riding through the streets of the lovelyspaceshipwe call the world is heartbreaking.
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It must be the effect ofspaceshipflight.
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He spoke about the fallacy of convergence—the notion, as he put it, that economies could become linked together like spaceships floating in space.
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Before they get thespaceshipin the air, it will cost far more than they are talking about at the moment.
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One parent remarked this morning that the school was like an alienspaceshipwhich had descended into the neighbourhood, drawing children in from outside areas and rejecting local children.
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We must find a way to do it, because we are destroying this littlespaceshipcalled the earth, and the room on it is growing less and less.
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