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Old September 22nd 10, 09:48 AM posted to sci.space.policy
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Default Time to Think ‘Horizontal’ for Future Space Launches

On Sep 21, 6:58*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 9/21/2010 10:46 AM, Doug Freyburger wrote:

It's just like the mountain based rail launcher on the old puppet show
Fireball XL-5! *I liked that show just as much as All Thunderbrids Are
Go.


I always wanted to see the far side of that mountain where the hundreds
of JATO booster sleds lay, rusting slowly away.

Pat


Naw the sleds were being recycled by the poor. Even
though the occasional sled would hit and kill as the
primary form of twenty-third century retirement for the
underclasses.

Trig