space-line

Neither NASA nor the US Airforce are set up for launching large private sector loads, like lunar mining villages, so a private sector (or nationalised industry) space-line will be needed.

Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

Neither NASA nor the US Airforce are set up for launching large private sector loads, like lunar mining villages, so a private sector (or nationalised industry) space-line will be needed.

Shuttle-C - NASA Watch 2009

Rules/standards covering docking systems are needed because the space-line and space-station operator are different companies.

How Best to Access the ISS-and LEO? - NASA Watch 2009

Kalidasa would have had a suitable treatment for space-line operators who thought only of dollars per kilo to orbit ... something that probably involved impalement, or metal-shod elephants, or boiling oil.

The Fountains of Paradise Clarke, Arthur C. 1979

Have the boys break out a couple of spare Number Twelve struts, some clamps and - chain, four snatch blocks, and a hundred feet of heavy space-line ...

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

The wind steadied into the reverse direction with ever-increasing fury; winch and space-line again came into play.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

As soon as it was safe to do so, out darted an armored figure with a space-line, whose grappling end clinked into a socket of the old man's armor as the pilot rammed it home.

Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

In the tiny airlock of the slender craft crouched a space-line man with coiled cable in readiness, but he was not needed.

Triplanetary 1927

Strangely enough, however, not one of the floating figures spoke or moved, and space-line men were hurriedly sent out to investigate.

Triplanetary 1927

The space-line men -- the engineers of weightless combat -- led the van, protected by the projectors of their fellows.

Spacehounds of IPC 1927