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From: gvg@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Greg Goebel)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Re: Impossible Space Goals
Message-ID: <101270030@hpcvlx.HP.COM>
Date: 23 Jul 89 18:04:47 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, OR, USA
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> 
> Damn.  David's completely correct and I am a complete fool to have
> forgotten the balsa breakaways.  I remember being fascinated by the
> idea of WOOD on the moon at the time!
> 
> Tom Neff
>

I read an article on Pegasus in MECHANICAL ENGINEERING and found out to 
my surprise that the wings were overlaid with a layer of cork -- it burns
off at high velocity.

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