Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp From: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: An idea Message-ID: <212@v7fs1.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 89 21:51:20 GMT References: <1401.251BA8CC@branch.FIDONET.ORG> <1989Sep26.220340.13871@ziebmef.mef.org> <1989Sep27.110807.2646@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> Reply-To: mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) Organization: Video 7 + G2 = Headland Technology Lines: 21 In article <1989Sep27.110807.2646@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> hogg@db.toronto.edu (John Hogg) writes: :In the movie ``Marooned'' (circa 1966), :the rescue launch has to be scrubbed because of high winds on the pad, :due to a tropical storm coming overhead. By the time the storm ends, :the stranded astronauts will have run out of air. In a daring move, :the launch is made right through the eye as it passes over head. : :Movie buffs can correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that the rescue :craft was even a lifting-body vehicle. I could well be wrong. That may :have been the first non-kiddie movie I ever saw, and I haven't seen it :since. Yep, it was an X-20 "Dyna-soar" launched by a Titan. David Jansen at the controls, I think. As I recall, it was a fairly decent movie, though I'm sure they had a number of serious bugs in it. -- Mike Van Pelt "Beware the first release, my son, Headland Technology/Video 7 and shun the frumious 1.0" ...ames!vsi1!v7fs1!mvp