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| Project Deep Space -- A science fiction story by H. Preston |
| Project Deep Space by H. Preston Published by Writers Club Press Price 19.95 Format: Paperback Size 6X9 Pages 424 ISBN: 0-595-15448-4 |
| H. Preston The author, (Henry Preston Nall) is a U.S. citizen who has lived in Thailand for more than 10 years. |
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| Mutual Force Propulsion After 150 years in the space hardware business, they had accomplished an important breakthrough. Spacecraft hardware builders had developed a system that allowed the projection of power to a spacecraft from equipment at the origin and destination. This allowed the space craft to operate without the need to carry the fuel it consumed. |
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| Project Deep Space MFP saved the space industry from complete failure, but it was not the solution needed for establishment of a real space travel industry. The system had one serious limitation -- it needed a power transmission system at the destination. This meant that the MFP ships could not go where conventional ships had not gone first to build satellites and power stations. A completely new concept in spacecraft propulsion was needed to send a spaceship to another solar system. By the year 2117, there were MFP stations at all planets in the Earth Planetary system and a lot of mining was being accomplished by private firms. But that was about as far as they could go in the exploitation of space. There were no inhabitable planets in the Earth solar system and MFP ships could not travel beyond the solar system. The Discovery of Saturnite That year, the space ship Excavator, working near the planet Saturn, experienced an accident that resulted in the opening of a new era in space transportation. |
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| The equipment, called a Mutual Force Propulsion System (MFP) projected a beam along which the ship traveled. Because the ship did not need to carry its fuel, the fuel use was a small fraction of the usual requirement. The development of the MFP system revolutionized Earth's transportation system and made the commercial space industry feasible. All space ships used the MFP system and even long trips on Earth were suborbital MFP flights because they were much faster and less expensive than airplanes. |
| Working as a technical writer in the aerospace electronics industry for more than 15 years, in the USA, Germany, England, and Saudi Arabia, wrote more than 300 technical manuals, including a preventive maintenance manual for the first Apollo Lunar Excursion Module (LEM), developed at Grumman's Bethpage, Long Island plant. |
| He has written several science fiction stories, but Project Deep Space is his first published work. |
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