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From: fisher@moon.dec.com
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Subject: Re: An idea
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Date: 3 Oct 89 21:27:54 GMT
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In article <3743@rtech.rtec.com> reb writes: 
> In article <1989Sep29.164653.29049@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry
Spencer) writes:
> >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.
> 
> I remember the movie (The book was good too!) and I doubt anything like the
> ship ever existed except on paper or in the movie.
> 							reb
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Well, I'm not sure I understand the sense of the last couple of replies,
regarding
"the ship" but...
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.  I think they had to pull a boilerplate
Gemini and replace it with a flyable one from the manufacturer, thus giving
the tension.  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, but I'm willing to be corrected by
reb.

Burns Fisher