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From: spencer@oberon.UUCP (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Columbia Replacement
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 03:03:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb  4 03:03:38 1986
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> >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.


I don't really know the facts of any re-fit, however when I was home at
christmas I saw the Enterprise.  It is sitting at Dullas airport and is
there (supposedly) as part of the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.
It is not really on exhibit, but it is *in* the museum, how can they
take it back and retrofit it?


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