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.
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