Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!ames!skipper!shafer From: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: 747 Shuttle Ferry Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 14:53:03 GMT References: <4961@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Sender: shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov Organization: NASA Dryden, Edwards AFB, CA Lines: 22 In-reply-to: echristian@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov's message of 18 Apr 91 12:11:51 GMT In article <4961@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> echristian@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (ERIC ECHRISTIAN) writes: Seeing a few entries on the Shuttle Ferry reminded me: I have a puzzle that perhaps someone on the net can solve. Does anyone know why there was a 747 Shuttle Ferry parked at the airport in El Paso, TX in February? Several of us saw it, but couldn't figure out why it was there. There was also a Guppy parked next to it. That's not a Shuttle Ferry, that's a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). To be precise, that's the new SCA that was just recently delivered. The old SCA (905) lives here and I see it every day. Why is it in El Paso? Because that's where JSC keeps it (the same is true of the Guppy). The Vomit Comet (used in zero-g studies) is there too. JSC has quite a little presence in El Paso. Everything has to be somewhere. -- Mary Shafer shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov ames!skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov!shafer NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA Of course I don't speak for NASA "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all"--Unknown US fighter pilot