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From: schriber@horizon.COM (Mike Schriber)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Endeavor [sic]
Message-ID: <135@toad.horizon.COM>
Date: 28 Apr 91 06:48:20 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.010610.4233@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <281622DA.6F80@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu>
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Shuttle numbers and such:

Enterprise was/is the firts orbiter to fly.  Well, actually it was the first
to glide.  Enterprise was the post-reentry glider for the shuttle program.  It
wreleased from the NASA 747 Shuttle Transporter (#905) a few times as
a proof of concept that the thing would actually fly and land with a good degreeof control and saftey.  Enterprise now resides in the Smithsonian Air and Space
Museum (or rather in a hangar awaiting the opening of a new wing).  Enterprise
was never intended to be an operational orbiter.


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