Spacecraft vehicle designed to move the payload from a reference orbit to the target orbit, or direct it to an interplanetary trajectory.
1 A yellow-and-green-striped space tug drifted alongside and flashed its 'Follow Me' signal.
2 One screen of missiles hurtled on before the space tug , and another behind.
3 In minutes, the space tug had a line made fast.
4 Then the space tug came cautiously close to the Moonship.
5 The space tug settled a little and leaned a little.
6 He shifted a control, and the space tug swayed.
7 Joe and his crew relaxed in the space tug .
8 A space tug hauling a tow to the Platform!
9 The space tug came out of the lock.
10 As the space tug skimmed past, its path would be curved by the pull of gravity.
11 The space tug returned to the Platform.
12 The space tug could take rockets from its cargo and set them outside its hull for firing.
13 He drove them into the space tug .
14 Joe and his crew in the space tug hauled the Moonship a good five miles from the Platform.
15 There was the seeming of a vast sack of pure blackness before the nose of the space tug .
16 The Platform and of course the space tug was now on the reverse side of the Platform's orbit.
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