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From: dbm@icarus.jsc.nasa.gov (Brad Mears)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Space Shuttle Enterprise
Message-ID: <1991Apr25.195733.11534@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
Date: 25 Apr 91 19:57:33 GMT
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In article <1991Apr25.140350.3543@waikato.ac.nz>, pjs1@waikato.ac.nz writes:
|> 
|> 	I have always assumed that Challenger was OV-101 and have never heard
|> of the Enterprise. As it never flew would I be correct in thinking that
|> something was wrong with it's body and hence it's inards were used to make the
|> challenger?

To the best of my knowledge, Enterprise was the first full-scale flight
quality orbiter constructed.  Among other things, it was used for vibration
testing.  Since these tests subjected it to serious overloads, it is forever
prohibited from flight.  It is now property of the Smithsonian Air & Space
Museum.  

-- 
Brad Mears
dbm@icarus.jsc.nasa.gov

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