doug@escher.UUCP (Douglas J Freyburger) (09/29/85)
Last week I posted some legends and rumors about the DynaSoar project (an early space shuttle planned in the 60s), and I terminated it with a paragraph about cancelling the DynaSoar in favor of the single-shot rockets. I was rightly flamed on that. I worded it very badly. There was a trade-off decision to be made between the single-shot rockets that could get us to the moon by 1969, and the reuseable DynaSoar that could get us a space station then, but probably not to the moon. I agree with the decision to go with the skyrockets, but I lament the need to cut out the DynaSoar project. In an ideal world, funding would have been available for both. We got our spaceplane in the end anyways, so it worked out well. -- Doug Freyburger DOUG@JPL-VLSI, DOUG@JPL-ROBOTICS, JPL M/S 23 ...escher!doug, escher!teleop!doug Pasadena, CA 91109 doug@aerospace, etc. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed above are far too ridiculous to be associated with my employer. Some names used above are trademarks of some companies. Net site JPL-ROBOTICS has its net link down lately. No mail gets though.