Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: An idea Message-ID: <1989Sep29.164653.29049@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1401.251BA8CC@branch.FIDONET.ORG> <1989Sep26.220340.13871@ziebmef.mef.org> <1989Sep27.110807.2646@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <212@v7fs1.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29 Sep 89 16:46:53 GMT In article <212@v7fs1.UUCP> mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes: >:In the movie ``Marooned'' (circa 1966)... >:Movie buffs can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the rescue >:craft was even a lifting-body vehicle... >Yep, it was an X-20 "Dyna-soar" launched by a Titan... Titan, yes; Dyna-soar, no. It was an "XRV" experimental USAF lifting body. (Dyna-soar had wings.) I don't know offhand whether the "XRV" ever existed; I suspect not. -- "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