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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Endeavor [sic]
Message-ID: <792@newave.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 91 21:28:06 GMT
References: <1991Apr24.010610.4233@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <281622DA.6F80@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <135@toad.horizon.COM>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
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In article <135@toad.horizon.COM> schriber@horizon.COM (Mike Schriber) writes:
> 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.

Please correct me if I am wrong, but Enterprise was fully intended to fly
in Space.  NASA did this to satisfy the zillion trekkies that send in
cards and letters.  After the glide tests, it was determined that it would
be cheaper to refit a test frame for flight instead of Enterprise.  That test
frame was OV-99, Challenger.

BTW, does anyone know if the Smithsonian is actually going ahead with the
new Air & Space museum near Dulles Airport?  Last I heard, it was not
funded by Congress.  Then I heard a rumor that some construction work was
underway.  Anyone know for sure?

-john-

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