In his 1958 juvenile novel *Have Spacesuit, Will Travel* (I read it years later ...

		dctoedt on Jan 29, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the hab... In his 1958 juvenile novel Have Spacesuit, Will Travel (I read it years later as a tween), Robert A. Heinlein described this as a "skew-flip maneuver" that would get someone from Earth to Pluto in five days at 8G (!). And apparently E.E. "Doc" Smith described it even earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Space_Suit%E2%80%94Will_T... https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/261753/what-was-th...

And because faster acceleration only gives you square-root returns, a leisurely 1G trip going the same distance is still over in 14 days.