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From: markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Propellant velocity
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Date: 25 May 91 04:54:45 GMT
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In article <1991May22.164754.22298@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>>   What does the latest research on this issue have to say?
>
>What latest research?  There is only the barest dribble of research,
>and no development of flight-worthy hardware to speak of.

Personally, I was expecting to hear an answer like: "the USAF is currently
conducting research with fission-based propulsion with expellant velocities
as high as 1000 KILOMETERS per second."

No development?  Say it ain't so.