Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: HL-20 / New Mini-Shuttle
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.234854.9619@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Dec14.165736.11166@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 90 23:48:54 GMT

In article <1990Dec14.165736.11166@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> apa1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Andrew Peter Anselmo) writes:
>Anybody have info on the HL-20; the mini-shuttle for Freedom?
>I saw an article in Aerospace America, and wonder what it's status is i.e
>mockup/wish hardware or what? ...

The crucial number to look for is how much money has been spent on it.  In
the case of the HL-20, it's a few million dollars.  That makes it a small
design study only.  NASA funds such things constantly, and very few of them
ever turn into real projects.
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"The average pointer, statistically,    |Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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