Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!sri-unix!David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS.ARPA From: David.Smith@CMU-CS-IUS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Runway to orbit Message-ID: <1438@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 12:08:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1438 Posted: Fri Jun 29 12:08:00 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 8-Jul-84 08:50:57 EDT Lines: 7 >From the Aerospace Spotlight column in the June Aerospace America: The U.S. can now build a prototype SR-71-class hydrogen scramjet-powered plane within three years, [DARPA director] Cooper announced. Such a plane, he said, could take off from a 10,000-foot runway and use rockets to fly into low Earth orbit.