1968 presidential election - plus psionics

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by RogerBW

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It's not too technically demanding at this tech level to get someone up out of the atmosphere and back again if you don't need to get them into orbit as well - and animal experiments suggest that this is sufficient.

That gives you the whole X-15 program.

Come to think of it there are the lifting body protoypes too and it casts a certain explantory light on the Shuttlle design.