Newsgroups: sci.space
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: SSX: Space Ship Experimental (summary)
Message-ID: <1990Jan17.193148.15540@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <9001121009.AA01853@zit.cigy.> <1146@v7fs1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 90 19:31:48 GMT

In article <1146@v7fs1.UUCP> mvp@v7fs1.UUCP (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
>This sounds a whole lot like the "Phoenix" proposal that Gary Hudson
>was involved with a number of years ago.  Is it the same?  ...

Similar.  SSX is an X-plane equivalent, strictly an experimental vehicle
with no operational role, which makes it smaller and a bit less ambitious
than Phoenix.
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