Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!decuac!shlump.nac.dec.com!hiatus.dec.com!moon.dec.com!fisher From: fisher@moon.dec.com Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: An idea Message-ID: <1511@hiatus.dec.com> Date: 3 Oct 89 21:27:54 GMT References: <3743@rtech.rtech.com> <1401.251BA8CC@branch.FIDONET.ORG> <1989Sep26.220340.13871@ziebmef.mef.org> <1989Sep27.110807.2646@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <212@v7fs1.UUCP> <1989Sep29.164653.29049@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@hiatus.dec.com Lines: 36 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 > > On a clear disk reb@rtech.com *or* reb%rtech.com@lll-winken.llnl.GOV > you can seek forever h:861 Washington Ave Westwood, NJ 07675 h:201-666-9207 > > ASCII and ye shall receive. 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