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From: jayl@athena.UUCP (Jay Lessert)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Enterprise
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Date: Wed, 30-Jan-85 12:53:02 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 30 12:53:02 1985
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Summary: 

>I was wondering- is it [the Enterprise] being taken there [Vandenburg] for
>publicity or are they actually going to send it up?

Neither.  Enterprise will be used to check out all the assorted shuttle
handling equipment at Vandenburg without tying up one of the operational
spacecraft.  (Payload installation/removal, external tank mating, transporter,
etc., etc.)  Apparently much, if not all of this equipment is quite different
from that used at KSC.  (NIH?  Naaaaah, not in the Air Force!)
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	Jay Lessert - Tektronix, Logic Design Systems Division
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