Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!whuts!homxb!homxc!5432ds
From: 5432ds@homxc.UUCP (E.BERLINER)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: alternate launch vehicles
Summary: HOTOL continues (sort of)
Keywords: dog, UK shuttle, getaway special
Message-ID: <3859@homxc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 19:51:18 GMT
References: <3433@geac.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
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In article <3433@geac.UUCP>, cbs@geac.UUCP (Chris Syed) writes:
     <stuff>

>     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?

A recent edition of AW&ST (no more than a week or two ago) mentioned
that the HOTOL effort was no longer being funded by the British
Government, but that British Aerospace (the renamed BAC) is in
negotiations with some private concerns ( no names mentioned) for
the continuation of development.

Not quite dead, but the pulse and blood pressure are dangerously
low I would say. Typical (British) Governmental (of any  political
flavor) response to matters aerospace.

David Smith (AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ. homxc!5432ds)