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From: doug@escher.UUCP (Douglas J Freyburger)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: DynaSoar flame: apology
Message-ID: <58@escher.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 18:20:27 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 28 18:20:27 1985
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Last week I posted some legends and rumors about the
DynaSoar project (an early space shuttle planned in the
60s), and I terminated it with a paragraph about cancelling
the DynaSoar in favor of the single-shot rockets.  I was
rightly flamed on that.  I worded it very badly.

There was a trade-off decision to be made between the
single-shot rockets that could get us to the moon by 1969,
and the reuseable DynaSoar that could get us a space
station then, but probably not to the moon.  I agree with
the decision to go with the skyrockets, but I lament the
need to cut out the DynaSoar project.  In an ideal world,
funding would have been available for both.  We got our
spaceplane in the end anyways, so it worked out well.
-- 

Doug Freyburger		DOUG@JPL-VLSI, DOUG@JPL-ROBOTICS,
JPL M/S 23 		...escher!doug, escher!teleop!doug
Pasadena, CA 91109	doug@aerospace, etc.

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