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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Enterprise
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Date: Tue, 5-Feb-85 16:46:58 EST
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> I've heard that it would cost more to make Enterprise spaceworthy than to
> build a new orbiter vehicle from scratch.  She was never intended to fly
> beyond the atmosphere.

Don't confuse final results with original intent.  In the beginning, NASA
most definitely intended to refurbish the Enterprise for spaceflight, and
said so, loudly.  The notion that the Enterprise was never really intended
to fly seems to be a popular misconception.  Unless somebody within NASA
was being much more clever than I think likely, it wasn't meant that way.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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