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Pat Flannery wrote:
Apollo dropped the skip partly because it also
dropped its original requirement for a landing in the continental US.

I've never seen a drawing of it, but I once ran into a mention of a
Rogallo wing equipped Apollo.

There were a number of ideas for just how to bring an Apollo down on land,
and if you read early Apollo papers, you can find details and even some
test results -- for example, there was substantial testing done on braking
rockets for touchdown.
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