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From: eric@abode.UUCP (Eric C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: orbiters
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Date: 22 Oct 90 18:58:48 GMT
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In article <1990Oct22.051612.799@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Well, it would be more correct to say that Challenger has been buried with
>full honors...  Enterprise and Buran have been retired, for similar-sounding
>reasons (too far below the definitive flight standard), despite original
>intents to continue flying them.  (Pathfinder, by the way, was a mockup,
>not a functional orbiter, so there was no question of ever flying it.)


Well, the Enterprise was never intended to be launced into space. It didn't
even have real engines in it.

Eric
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