"No, but the springs-if rocket thrust won't work maybe springs will!"
He stared into its mysterious beauty until the computer warned him that conversion to rocket thrust was only sixty seconds ahead.
A major acceleration from rocket thrust would turn the world inside the cylinder topsy-turvy.
Gravitation plus rocket thrust would give the ship the highest velocity it could hope to attain.
Effects of the lower air pressure include higher rocket thrust and lower heat transfer.
Anti-matter mixed with water on an variable weight basis provided the rocket thrust.
The X-force was growing as zero hour approached, while the compensating rocket thrust dropped.
If part of the ship burned or melted or was torn away, the rocket thrust might speed the cabin up to almost any figure.
That fraction of the ship received the full force of the rocket thrust.
Now start up the main motors and our rocket thrust will counteract gravity.