Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!pacbell!rtech!squid!reb From: reb@squid.rtech.com ("REB - Take two checkpoints and call me in the morning") Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: An idea Message-ID: <3743@rtech.rtech.com> Date: 2 Oct 89 14:56:26 GMT References: <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@rtech.rtech.com Reply-To: reb@squid.UUCP ("REB - Take two checkpoints and call me in the morning") Organization: Relational Technology, Inc. Lines: 18 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.