From: navigaiter2002@aol.comSpamsuX.retro.com   
      
   <<> brute force reentry. Hardly as graceful as a good lifting body like   
   > the cancelled [!?] X-38 would do.   
      
   Incorrect. The shuttle has a much higher hypersonic L/D (4.0) than the X-38   
   (1.4).>>   
    Also incorrect. The X-38 would have been more graceful than the brute force   
   reentry of the shuttle because the shuttle is so darn heavy that its higher   
   lift ratio would not prevent it from sinking faster than the lighter X-38.   
      
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