Sky Hook (1971)

[James Knight, MLIS]

Perhaps...

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The Times, Tuesday, Aug 25, 1953; pg. 3; Issue 52709; col D
Launching Rockets From Balloons Cheaper Research At High Altitudes FROM OUR
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.

"Dr. Van Allen explained that a small rocket weighing 200lb., carrying 30lb
of scientific equipment, could be lifted to 70,000ft. by suspending it from
a plastic balloon of the "sky-hook" type, and then automatically released
to continue its upward journey under its own power."

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Other examples abound, but have little to do with basketball.

At 08:49 PM 12/18/03, you wrote:
>Not basketball, but I think I remember seeing it in 50s or 60 science
>fiction, probably Robert Heinlein or Arthur C. Clark.
>Dave Hause, dwhause at jobe.net
>Ft. Leonard Wood, MO
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <Bapopik at AOL.COM>
>    Which came first, the "rainbow" or the "sky"?
>    The LOS ANGELES TIMES should have coverage of Lew Alcindor's college
>career at UCLA in the 1960s.  Was the "sky hook" invented there?

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