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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: Enterprise- IS IT FUNCTIONAL
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 14:43:05 EDT
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The Enterprise will not be launched; it is being used as a test article
to check that everything at the Edwards facility is set up right for
real orbiters.  That sort of testing has been its major role of late.
It started out doing the landing tests some years ago.  The original
intent was to refurbish it for space use, but the eventual decision was
that it was too overweight and too far behind the "production" standard
(which had evolved since it was built) for this to be worthwhile.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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