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To: NicknamedBob; fanfan

That is pretty much what Burt Rutan and Co. did with SS1 riding the White Knight carrier aircraft up to altitude, then rockets up from there.


4,018 posted on 01/31/2007 2:52:30 PM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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To: Dead Corpse

True, no doubt he got part of the idea from the Pegasus rockets.

http://www.orbital.com/SpaceLaunch/Pegasus/index.html


4,019 posted on 01/31/2007 2:57:37 PM PST by NicknamedBob (Sign says, "No dogs allowed -- except seeing-eye dogs" Why don't they put that sign down lower?)
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