[spaceflight now] OSP: Deja Vu all over again?

Getting things back firmly onto a space history -- or space
soon-to-be-historic -- footing, cast your peepers at the Spaceflight Now
article containing no unflattering photos of female Shuttle Management
personnel of any kind at

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0307/23osp/

containing the concept art at
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0302...spconcepts.jpg

....and containing a set of concepts including something reminiscent of the
old HL20 or the old Soviet MiG "flying shoe", something resembling a cross
between an X15 and an F18, a "wide body" version of the aforementioned,
and a couple of -- surprise, surprise, said Gomer -- capsule concepts: one
resembling a flattened Soyuz CM with a barebones retro/propulsion module
attached, and the other a Boeing concept that's almost a dead ringer
for...well, have a look for yourselves:
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0307...ospcapsule.jpg

....and ask yourselves if perhaps some engineers weren't lurking on our
interminable if-we-could-rebuild-the-ApolloCSM-today threads, or our
acrimonious next-generation-crew-rescue-and-ferry-craft threads.

Naaah.

--
"All over, people changing their roles,
along with their overcoats;
if Adolf Hitler flew in today,
they'd send a limousine anyway!" --the clash.
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Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org
Mike Flugennock's Mikey'zine, dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org