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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Columbia Replacement
Message-ID: <988@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 1-Feb-86 18:20:03 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  1 18:20:03 1986
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Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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In article <860129202758.780479@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Cargo@HI-MULTICS.ARPA ("David S. Cargo") writes:
> (3) NASA will have Rockwell refit the Enterprise to make it fully
>operational.  Nobody has mentioned this one.  Is it even possible?  I
>don't know how far the Enterprise is from being an operational orbiter,
>instead of a boiler plate shuttle replica.  Anybody have any ideas?

	I have it from a reliable source(someone actually involved in
shuttle construction/maintenence) that refitting the Enterprise would
cost as much or more than building a complete new shuttle. So this is
highly unlikely.
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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