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From: eric@abode.UUCP (Eric C. Bennett)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: orbiters
Message-ID: <101@abode.UUCP>
Date: 23 Oct 90 05:13:16 GMT
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In article <5852@mace.cc.purdue.edu> dil@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Perry G Ramsey) writes:
>OV-099    Challenger  The first structure
>   101    Enterprise  The first orbiter to fly
>   102    Columbia    The first orbiter to orbit
>   103    Discovery
>   104    Atlantis
>   105    Endeavour
>
>For the record, what is now Endeavour was known as OV-105 even in the
>days before it was supposed to be a flight article.  In the old days,
>it was known as the structural spares program.


Wasn't there supposed to be five (5) shuttles in the first place? I thought
they cut it down to 4 because of budget problems. I could be wrong but that
sounds correct.

Also, I thought Challenger was a shuttle that was a test vehicle (or
something along those lines) that was converted to a operational shuttle.
Though it was never used like the Enterprise. With a name like 'Enterprise'
I think they should have made it a 'real' orbiter. Space... The final
frontier..... (No jokes folks!)

Eric

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