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A new rocket, even Ares 1, is not the new frontier - we've been building man-carrying rockets for fifty years now.
Buzz is at it Again: Let's just change everything - NASA Watch 2009
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We've been building man-carrying rockets for 50 years now.
Jeff Hanley's Latest Update From the Denial Zone - NASA Watch 2009
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Once it was flying, a man-carrying trolley, hung from a wheel running on the cable, could be hauled up to just below the kite.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Once it was flying, a man-carrying trolley, hung from a wheel running on the cable, could be hauled up to just below the kite.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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As soon, however, as it reached the shore, the whole population took to flight, and tried to hide themselves from the man-carrying pig, as they christened the horse.
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As soon, however, as it reached the shore, the whole population took to flight, and tried to hide themselves from the man-carrying pig, as they christened the horse.
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The wreck of the spaceship Tsien, first man-carrying vessel to land on a satellite of Jupiter, stood in the centre of a small, circular lake - obviously artificial, and connected by a canal to the sea, less than three kilometres away.
2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987
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Unlike the ramrobots, the man-carrying slowboats could not use interstellar ramscoops.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1969
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Unlike the ramrobots, the man-carrying slowboats could not use interstellar ramscoops.
Neutron Star Niven, Larry 1968
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At the age of eighteen, only two years after Blériot had flown the Channel, these dreams had taken the form of building and flying model air - craft, and as secretary of the Windsor Model Aero Club, he had built a rudimentary man-carrying glider.
The HurricaneStory Gallico, Paul 1959
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