Re: How Rockets Differ From Jets

Glenn Shaw <togusa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:tomcat wrote in sci.space.shuttle:
:
:> This is absolutely correct. Either Venus, itself, or it's moons could
:> be used for a slingshot.
:
:Um, Venus has moons?

It does in Tomcat's universe.

Oh, the proper question to his formulation above is actually:

Um, Venus is moons?

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