Hohmann Transfer Orbit: a spaceship leaves from point 2 in Earth's orbit and arrives at point 3 in Mars '

Zubrin's alternative to this " Battlestar Galactica " mission strategy ( dubbed so by its detractors for the large, nuclear powered spaceships that supposedly resembled the science-fiction spaceship of the same name ) involved a longer surface stay, a faster flight-path in the form of a conjunction class mission, in-situ resource utilization and craft launched directly from the surface of Earth to Mars as opposed to be being assembled in orbit or by a space-based drydock.

This affects the Mars colony and during the threat of a global sand storm, they found escape of the doomed outpost inside an alien pod, which carried the fugitive humans into a gigantic and espherical spaceship orbiting Mars.

In one episode, Zim finds that Mars is a giant spaceship and attempts to roll it over Earth in order to wipe out all human life.

Earth's space fleet is hopelessly outclassed by the Gamilas and all seems lost until a message capsule from a mysterious crashed spaceship is retrieved on Mars.

In the first game, Keen is exploring on Mars when aliens steal four spaceship components that he must get back.

During Keen's first adventure in Mars, one of the friendlier martian aliens, a green critter with an eye on a stalk ( called a Yorp ) sneaked into his spaceship and came along home.

The narrative then steps back to the First Hundred's voyage to Mars aboard the spaceship Ares.

Peterson, a crew member of a spaceship visiting Mars buys an enormous pig-like creature known as a " wub " from a native just before departure.

In it, Rosny ’ s heroes travel to Mars in the “ Stellarium ”, a spaceship powered by artificial gravity and made of “ argine ”, an indestructible, transparent material.

Commander Keen first encounters the Vorticons on Mars in episode 1, Marooned on Mars, when he discovers they have disassembled his spaceship and scattered the pieces across the planet.

The new replacement shots consist of the RX-M flying through space ; it landing tail first on the Red Planet ; a different shot of the crew heading away from the RX-M to explore the stark Martian surface ; the surviving explorers quickly returning to their nearby spaceship ; and the RX-M later blasting off from Mars into space.

A voice-over tells us the year is 1973, that this is the planet Mars, and this spaceship has been sent to rescue the crew of a previous, ill-fated mission to the Red Planet ; they have found only one survivor, Col. Edward Carruthers ( Marshall Thompson ).

Lars is a Martian who appeared, beginning on May 2, 2009, in a series of strips that involved Jeffrey building a spaceship and going on an expedition to Mars.

Lars acted as a helper in building the spaceship and a guide on Mars.

The plotline involves the Avatar travelling through time to the Victorian era and finding himself on a spaceship along with various well-known persons from the late 1800s, including Nellie Bly, Sigmund Freud, and Nikola Tesla ; they are on a mission to rescue other important personalities of the time, who have been trapped on Mars due to the sabotage of their ship during a guided tour.

Clips of the cityscape from this movie were later used in the Universal serials Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers ; the mock-up Mars spaceship was reused in the former, as Dr. Zarkov's spaceship.

Martin Gibson, a famous science fiction author, is travelling to Mars, as a guest of the crew of the spaceship Ares.

He tells the team the plane is going to Mars, and they watch in horror as it turns into an alien spaceship ...

He has experienced life thoroughly, and is thinking of taking a trip to and beyond the reaches of Known Space, all alone in a spaceship for a year or more.

Billy Blaze is an eight-year-old boy genius who has constructed a spaceship in his backyard from old soup cans and other household objects, called The Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket.

Klaatu returns to his spaceship the next evening to implement the idea, unaware that Bobby has followed him.

Much like his two-note Jaws theme, the " five-tone " motif for Close Encounters has since become ingrained in popular culture ( the five tones are used by scientists to communicate with the visiting spaceship as a mathematical language as well as being incorporated into the film's signature theme ).

Elsewhere in the Forbidden Zone, a second spaceship has crash landed after being sent to search for Taylor and his crew.

Their spaceship is drawn mysteriously to the planet D ' Illyria where the crew meet mad scientist Doctor Prospero, who has been marooned on the planet since his wife, and science partner Gloria sent him and their daughter Miranda into space.

Translating this analogy into space, then, a " stationary " observer sees a planet moving left at speed U and a spaceship moving right at speed v. If the spaceship has the proper trajectory, it will pass close to the planet, moving at speed U + v relative to the planet's surface because the planet is moving in the opposite direction at speed U. When the spaceship leaves orbit, it is still moving at U + v relative to the planet's surface but in the opposite direction ( to the left ).

This oversimplified example is impossible to refine without additional details regarding the orbit, but if the spaceship travels in a path which forms a parabola, it can leave the planet in the opposite direction without firing its engine, the speed gain at large distance is indeed 2U once it has left the gravity of the planet far behind.

These clones are kept isolated and raised to believe that they will be the crew of a spaceship that will colonize a planet in the Tau Ceti solar system ( Tau Ceti has no habitable planet, its choice-should they manage to reach it-is part of the planned frustration of the crew ).

* Third Stage-The Boston ship is either headed towards, or perhaps has just undocked from, a large flat spaceship resembling a bank of pipe organ pipes.

She and Arthur next meet six months later on the spaceship Heart of Gold, shortly after the Earth has been destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass.

The U. S. Armadillo Aerospace company, which is developing the suborbital spaceship for space tourist flights, announced on Monday that a Russian has become its first confirmed passenger.

The player can continue playing after all civilizations have been conquered, the spaceship has reached its destination, or the year 2020, but there will no longer be any scoring.

The length of time there has been peace ( no armed conflict or war ) up to the end of the game also adds three points per turn, up to a maximum of 100 points, and if the player won using a spaceship, additional points are rewarded, based on the number of people who reached Alpha Centauri alive.

There is a general storyline behind the Amiga version of the game in which the player is an inter-galactic salesman whose spaceship has broken down.

Shocked by the large amounts of weapons on-board Jalo's spaceship, Kin has misgivings about the expedition, but Silver and Marco see the possibility of reaping great technological rewards and launch the vessel.

Since the Magic School Bus books present scientific facts in the form of stories in which fantastic things happen ( for example, a bus turns into a spaceship, or children shrink to the size of blood cells ), each book has a page at the end detailing in a humorous manner which parts of the book represented scientific fact and which were fanciful storytelling.

Dorn has also appeared in various video games, including Emperor: Battle for Dune, a game loosely based on Frank Herbert's Dune novels, as the Duke of House Atreides, Dr. John in Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Special Agent Frank Horrigan and Marcus the Mutant Sheriff in Fallout 2, as Maero in Saints Row 2, the critically acclaimed Mission Critical as Commander Dana, captain of the spaceship, and Gatatog Uvenk the minor antagonist in Mass Effect 2.

Meanwhile, a Presidential Commission has been formed to investigate the return of Taylor's spaceship and how the apes, which they already are aware are atypically intelligent, came to be aboard it.

Most of the surviving human race has moved to Second Earth, a huge spaceship that orbits the planet.

The TARDIS, to save itself, has materialized aboard a spaceship heading for an unknown destination.

Lawrence uses the technology to construct the spaceship he has wanted since he was a teenager.