Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Fourth Shuttle?
Message-ID: <1989Dec12.022557.6690@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <6795@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 89 02:25:57 GMT

In article <6795@shlump.nac.dec.com> berger@edpl21.enet.dec.com (Michael Berger) writes:
>I was wondering what was going on with the new fourth
>shuttle Endeavour (sp?).   I haven't read anything about
>it in quite a while.  Is it currently under construction?
>When is it expected to be completed?  Or is it another
>victim of the budgeting process?

It's still being built.  The rollout date is something like 1992.  Bear
in mind that the orbiters are essentially hand-built and the production
line (insofar as there ever was a production "line") was almost shut
down, so it's taking a long time.
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