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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Dynasoar (was rumors regarding SR-71)
Keywords: Where would we be now?
Message-ID: <94988@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 89 23:59:42 GMT
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In article <94977@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix) writes:
> 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.  
> 
Wrong-o.  DynaSoar and MOL were both alive years after Eisenhower
retired.  Try LBJ.