ORBITAL BOOSTER NOT NEW

I am surprised that your article "A New Path to Space?" (AW&ST Oct. 24, p. 56) portrays air-launch of an orbital booster rocket as a new concept. I was a member of the Pegasus team at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center when, on Apr. 5, 1990, we flew the first successful air-launched space shot...

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