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From: reb@squid.rtech.com ("REB - Take two checkpoints and call me in the morning")
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Subject: Re: An idea
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Date: 2 Oct 89 14:56:26 GMT
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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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