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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Not-Frequently Asked Space Questions
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Date: 16 Jan 90 22:05:10 GMT
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In article <9001162022.AA04346@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>, hasara@GN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Andrew J Hasara) writes:
> 
> Here are a few infrequently asked space questions.  Don't ask me for amswers,
> I'm the one asking the questions.
> 
> WHO is working on this SSX "thingy"?
> 
> What is an "aerospike" engine?  Who works on it?  Where can I get info on it?

The article you're referring to sounds very much like Gary Hudson's
"Phoenix" project.

Things had been pretty quiet about his progress of late, don't know how
to contact him.

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"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise
anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear
and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."

		Plato, _Phaedrus_ 275d