Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: An idea Message-ID: <1989Oct4.041357.22698@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <3743@rtech.rtech.com> <1401.251BA8CC@branch.FIDONET.ORG> <1989Sep26.220340.13871@ziebmef.mef.org> <1989Sep27.110807.2646@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <212@v7fs1.UUCP> <1989Sep29.164653.29049@utzoo.uucp> <1511@hiatus.dec.com> Date: Wed, 4 Oct 89 04:13:57 GMT In article <1511@hiatus.dec.com> fisher@moon.dec.com writes: >> >>:In the movie ``Marooned'' (circa 1966)... > >The book and the movie were significantly different. In the book, it was >a hypothetical Mecury 7 which was stranded, and they rescued it with a >never-before-flown Titan/Gemini... ... In the movie, it was a Gemini or >an Apollo that was stranded (I think I remember three people), and they >sent up some sort of thing which I always thought was a Dyna-Soar... You've missed a key fact: there were, in fact, two versions of the book. (I read both.) The original was indeed a long-duration Mercury [such things were planned but never flown] rescued by a Vostok and a Gemini. The book was later rewritten to match the movie, which updated the choice of spacecraft to match the progress of spaceflight. The revised version had a Skylab crew [although that name was not used, as it had not been chosen at the time] in an Apollo CSM rescued by a Soyuz and an "X-RV (the orbital version of the X-24A lifting body spacecraft)" [quote from the foreword of the revised edition, which I have]. -- Nature is blind; Man is merely | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology shortsighted (and improving). | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu