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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)
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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"
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