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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Phoenix
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Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 12:53:52 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  5 12:53:52 1985
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In article <8511262256.AA00949@s1-b.arpa> dietz@SLB-DOLL.CSNET (Paul Dietz) writes:
>
>Perhaps we're in the 1930's of spaceflight, and the shuttle is the
>American Hindenberg (it certainly has enough hydrogen in it...).

	I'd say thats about right, except that I would say the shuttle
is the Spirit of St Louis. A strained design intended solely to
*prove a point*, that something is possible, but not actually do it
*well*. Now that it has been shown to be possible there should be a
rapid increase in *commercial* developement which will quickly get us
to the next stage of space flight(the "50.s" :-)).
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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