Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!cbs
From: cbs@geac.UUCP (Chris Syed)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: alternate launch vehicles
Keywords: dog, UK shuttle, getaway special
Message-ID: <3433@geac.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 88 18:41:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.3433
Organization: Geac Computers, Markham, Ontario Canada
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    I have been away for some time. I apologise if these things have
    been discussed.

    While in some country or other, (England maybe), I heard a snatch
    of TV or radio news mentioning plans for 2 US commercial launches
    in the near future, using good ole missile-type vehicles.

    One was supposed to involve a small dog, who would be brought back to
    terra firma and become the mascot for an new line of toys. It was, I
    think, to be a suborbital flight launched from the Cape. Has this 
    happened? 

    Along those lines, do Getaway Specials still exist?

    Also, with all the recent talk of shuttle designs, I am reminded of an
    article by one of the UK netters about an air-breathing shuttle
    BAC (I think) was designing for Her Majesty's Gov't. Is this programme
    completely utterly dead?

       {uunet!mnetor,unicus,yunexus,}!geac!cbs (Chris Syed)