What is "jumpoff"

Usage examples of "jumpoff".

His toneless complexion was, of course, the result of thirty orbital months as project engineer in charge of systems aboard Vega Jumpoff Station.

Wellford, who had served as a shuttle craft pilot aboard Vega Jumpoff until the Mna had blasted away on its interstellar expedition, had a simple, pleasant face.

It was the same ground control device that had directed Vega Jumpoff Station shuttle operations.

Atlantic Ocean more than twenty-two thousand miles out in space, the massive, wheeling hulk of Vega Jumpoff Station lumbered through its synchronous orbit.

For Vega Jumpoff was even now generating the embryonic field of stygumness that would be expanded to blanket all Earth.

As soon as we expand the field to twelve thousand miles, we can bring an end to all hyper-sensitivity-if you help us move Vega Jumpoff to a low enough orbit.

Vega Jumpoff Station was a huge doughnut that rotated serenely about its nodular hub in the quiet of space.

Presently, an indicator moved and there was a slight increase in weight as spinward jets came to life and sent Vega Jumpoff wheeling ever so insignificantly faster about its hub.

Somewhere aboard Vega Jumpoff they had assembled a mighty rault suppressor.

In Command Central, Gregson found Radcliff drawn up before a bank of telescreens, watching shuttle ships close in on the perimeter of Vega Jumpoff and nudge their noses into iris-diaphragm docks.

He will work with you when we ease Vega Jumpoff down to its two thousand-mile orbit.

Now he listened to the distant sounds of anxious activity that came through the bulkheads of Vega Jumpoff Station.

Vega Jumpoff as thick-gasketed hatches thudded shut, sealing off the section whose major air leakage had tripped the alarm.

Gregson had found a spacesuit, slain a guard, propelled himself to the shuttle and sent it crashing through Vega Jumpoff in a suicidal plunge.

Through the forward port, Vega Jumpoff was still merely a point of light.