http://www.cswap.com/1989/Star_Trek_V:_The_Final_Frontier/cap/en/25fps/a/01_05
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1:06:35
- You call this alive?
- Son...
1:06:41
- Release me.
- I can't do that, Dad.
1994 film "Star Trek Generations" DVD video:
Dr. Soran: Picard! Get away from that launcher. Now!
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: July 27, 2006
http://www.planet4589.org/space/jsr/back/news.206
In June, the first launch of an advanced Pegasus XL from the L-1011 Stargazer carrier plane ended in failure; the cause has been identified as aerodynamic problems due to faulty hydro simulations (no wind tunnel testing was done).
http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jun-1996/0230.html
"*Stargazer* is a specially modified Lockheed Martin L-1011 TriStar jumbo jet that's based at Meadows Field in Bakersfield," stated Jim Spellman, executive director for the National Space Society's Western Spaceport Chapter in Kern, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county.
"It was named by OSC team members in honor of the first 'starship' commanded by fictional character Captain Jean-Luc Picard from the *Star Trek: The Next Generation* television series," Spellman added. The aircraft serves as the "first stage" by carrying the Pegasus XL rocket up to its 40,000 foot release point over the Pacific Ocean near Vandenberg AFB in Santa Barbara county.
"Upon release from *Stargazer* and a five-second freefall, the Pegasus XL's solid propellant rocket ignites
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 27 July 2006 excerpt ends]
