reaction-drive

When we were inventing reaction-drive spacecraft, the fueled rockets were allowed to crash here.

The Final Reflection John M. Ford 2000

Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play kriegspiel, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties.

Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952

Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play _kriegspiel_, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties.

Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934

About fifteen hundred to two thousand years ago, a reasonably high electrochemical civilization developed and they began working with nuclear energy and developed reaction-drive spaceships.

Time Crime H. Beam Piper 1934

They had developed normal-space reaction-drive ships before we came into contact with them, and they had quickly picked up the hyperspace-drive from us back in those days when the Solar League was still playing Missionaries of

Lone Star Planet H. Beam Piper 1934

Furthermore, even so small a ship as a seven-man reaction-drive shuttle offers abundant crannies in which to hole up, plus drinking water supplies (and Dr. McCoy tells me that Spock One could safely eat the carbohydrates from the shuttle's food stores, too, since carbohydrates don't have alternate molecular forms); and we have (or had) six such craft-not one of which we could scan inside from the main bridge, visually or with any other sensor, except for its control room and its power storage level.

Spock Must Die Blish, James 1970