On 9/21/2010 5:58 PM, Pat Flannery wrote:


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

For those too young to remember this TV series, here's a colorized
version of the spacecraft taking off from the launch rail and ditching
its booster sled: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBZN3c7O9wc
The whole concept owes a lot to Sangar's Antipodal Bomber design from WWII.

Pat