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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
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Subject: Re: Dynasoar (was rumors regarding SR-71)
Keywords: Where would we be now?
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Date: 20 Mar 89 23:41:09 GMT
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In article <274@foobar.hf.intel.com>, jim@foobar.hf.intel.com (Jim Garver) writes:
> Okay, what was the nature and mission of the DYNASOAR?  I believe this was
> the next step after the X-15.  The whole airforce program to fly into
> space was cancelled and the focus shifted entirely on rockets, if I remember
> correctly.  Was Kennedy responsible for this policy change?  

I think Eisenhower is to be credited (?) with ruling that the American
manned space program *must* be run by a civilian agency.