Timeline for What was the first story describing realistic zero-g during space flight?
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| Mar 26, 2016 at 21:14 | vote | accept | Yasskier | ||
| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:33 | comment | added | January First-of-May | @Hypnosifl - in the Physics for Entertainment version, the story is prefaced with this very statement (that the passengers would be weightless for the entire trip). I didn't look for the specifics of the original 1914 version; it's possible that this point was not mentioned there explicitly. The author definitely understood, though, or he would not have written the story. | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:13 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | Is it clear that the author understood that you'd be weightless for the whole trip as long as the rockets weren't firing, rather than just near the Lagrange point as in Verne's story? | |
| Mar 7, 2016 at 0:00 | history | answered | January First-of-May | CC BY-SA 3.0 |