On May 25, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Craig Berry <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:

So the tugs spend three hours or so boosting a cargo onto a Hohmann transfer orbit, then another six boosting back roughly the opposite way to intercept an incoming shipment and decelerate it into orbit at the destination. Tug pilots would get home in time for a late dinner. :)

The deep and abiding romance of space travel! ;-P I’m minded of Dennis Hopper’s character in “Space Truckers” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120199/

If you’ve never seen it, you MUST.WATCH.IT it is amazingly great cheezy SF on the order of Dark Star. It has the single greatest pull-starter joke ever filmed. And Square Pigs. An entire freighter full of them.

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Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

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