From: utzoo!decvax!watmath!pcmcgeer
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Re: X-20 reentry
Article-I.D.: watmath.2833
Posted: Sat Jun 26 00:05:10 1982
Received: Mon Jun 28 07:07:28 1982
References: sri-unix.1875

	Hmm.  I suspected it might be something like that - the idea's been
around for a long while - I guess that in 1982 it's even been a long while
since the DynaSoar.  Heinlein was using the Skip-to-M'Lou idea in the 40's.
	Why didn't the shuttle use the Dyna-Soar concept?  Was it proved
unsafe?  Surely it must have been studied, since the tiles were giving such
problems in the mid '70's that a lot of people were certain that the shuttle
would never fly.
	Finally, if we can't make the DynaSoar work, is there any reason to
suppose that the Russians can?