In a message dated 6/14/00 12:13:04 AM Central Daylight Time,
fortean1@frontiernet.net writes:
> >I thought the conspiracy was to get the military to pay for a
> >permanent manned presence in space.
>
> No, it was to pay for the development of a SSTO (single stage to orbit)
> spaceplane
> for the USAF, successfully completed in the late 80s according to Aviation
> Leak.
I don't think the Black Budget is big enough to hide something like that.
It's big, but not THAT big . . .
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