Adrian Tymes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ERPS] Columbia: Lessons for Private Operators

> David Masten wrote: 
> > 4. There should always be another vehicle ready for (and capable of) a
> > rescue mission.
> 
> It would be a huge
> PR boost to send up one of our craft to bail NASA, or whomever else, out
> when theirs breaks down in orbit - though this would hopefully be a rare
> event.  (If nothing else, if we do wind up rescuing them a lot, why not
> just use our vehicles to begin with?)

It is interesting that David Burkhardt, who came up with the
"Space Cub" suborbital concept *before* X-Prize, wrote an SF
novellette on that subject.  It was published in _Analog_ 
sometime in the mid-1990's.

Doug Drummond.

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