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From: linwood@jett.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Enterprise
Message-ID: <408@jett.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 00:18:16 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  7 00:18:16 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 3-Feb-85 09:05:43 EST
Organization: Jett Unix System, Huntsville, AL
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Several years ago, before the Columbia every got off the ground, they
brought the Enterprise here to Huntsville, to assemble it with the
Boster Rockets and the External Tank to see how well they fit.  They
erected them in the hugh Static Test Stand at Marshell Space Flight
Center, and shook (vibrated) it to see how well everything could undergo
the stress of the launch.  The are taking the Enterprise to Vandenburg
most likely to put it together and test the launch pad.  Enterprise
will never fly, but it is the best mockup for those type of tests.

	- Linwood Varney (Jett Unix System, Huntsville, AL)
	  {akgua,ihnp4,cbosgd,nsc}!{jett,jett!{zaiaz,hagar}}!linwood


p.s. Enterprise did fly to test the landings remember?