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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: X-30, Space Station Strangles NASP
Message-ID: <1989Sep30.220055.28004@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <4983@omepd.UUCP> <1989Sep29.164255.28849@utzoo.uucp> <5292@eos.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 89 22:00:55 GMT

In article <5292@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>Yeah, I think Henry and I agree on this one.  We need more X-30
>type programs.  And its not clear what kinds of directions are needed.
>We sort of got side tracked from the X-15/X-20 lines of doing things....
>There's a lot of research required for sustained hypersonic flight.

Actually, I was thinking of space launchers in general rather than
hypersonic flight in particular -- I'm actually not convinced that
hypersonic flight is the way to go for cheap spaceflight -- but the
point still holds:  too many ideas with potentially large payoffs
are languishing on the ground instead of being tested in flight.
-- 
"Where is D.D. Harriman now,   |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
when we really *need* him?"    | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu