| 单词 | space gun |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspace gun space gun n. Astronautics (a) a large gun which projects a spacecraft into space; (b) a hand-held gun whose recoil is used by an astronaut to propel himself or herself. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > rocket > [noun] rocket1919 moon rocket1921 space rocket1928 space gun1929 step rocket1932 ion rocket1936 photon rocket1949 rockoon1953 space launcher1955 launcher1958 cosmic rocket1959 ullage rocket1961 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > parts of spacecraft > [noun] > personal equipment used by astronauts space gun1929 spacewalker1930 umbilical cord1948 backpack1966 MOOSE1966 1929 ‘F. Phillips’ in Sci. Wonder Stories June 327/2 Altogether more than 47,000 of them [sc. spheres] were hurled toward the Earth, carrying about 45,000,000 Venusians... Thousands of them..were estimated by the invaders themselves to have missed the target through errors in calculation, and the imperfection of hurriedly constructed space ‘guns’. 1935 H. G. Wells Things to Come 12 The stormy victory of the new ideas as the Space Gun fires and the moon cylinder starts on its momentous journey. 1954 K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile (ed. 2) 197 All the propellant could be consumed in the first second of take-off—as Jules Verne proposed in his famous ‘space-gun’. 1968 Amer. Speech 43 166 Space gun, a handheld instrument used to propel an astronaut outside the capsule. 1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon viii. 180 This was where I had to use the little space gun. 1999 Technol. Forecasting & Social Change 61 126 The potential of the linear induction mass driver or ‘rail gun’ or ‘spacegun’ would drastically reduce costs of launching materials. < as lemmas |
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