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From: ccoprmd@prism.gatech.EDU (Matthew DeLuca)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle Enterprise
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Date: 4 Aug 90 00:19:01 GMT
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In article <90215.173615LABRIE@GECRDVM1.BITNET> LABRIE@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com writes:
>     Second built was OV-101, Enterprise.  (NOTE: I don't know if OV-100 exists
>or not.)  It was built as a test vehicle and used for landing tests in 1977.

I believe OV-100 is a little-known vehicle named Pathfinder, currently on 
display in Huntsville.  I won't swear to this, though...anyone know for certain?

>     One question I would have for anyone out there is:

>What is Enterprise exactly being used for right now?  Is it a ground
>model for information while other flights are up, a training vehicle, or
>just a display?

Just a display.  I know it was at the 1984 World's Fair, in New Orleans, and
in 1986 was at Dulles International Airport, in Washington, where it will 
eventually be put on display, with other vehicles, in an annex to the        
Smithsonian Air and Space museum.  I assume it's still there, probably parked
by the SR-71...


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Matthew DeLuca
Georgia Institute of Technology      Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, 
Office of Information Technology     for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
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