[net.space] Runway to orbit

David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS.ARPA (06/29/84)

>From the Aerospace Spotlight column in the June Aerospace America:

	The U.S. can now build a prototype SR-71-class hydrogen
	scramjet-powered plane within three years, [DARPA director]
	Cooper announced.  Such a plane, he said, could take off from
	a 10,000-foot runway and use rockets to fly into low Earth
	orbit.