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From: ins_aeas@jhunix.UUCP (Earle A .Sugar)
Newsgroups: net.columbia
Subject: Re: Enterprise-where is it?
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 08:56:11 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 14 08:56:11 1986
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> > 
> >Its exact status (at least as of last Dec 17, when I saw it) was that of
> >apron-weight, holding down the turf at Dulles International. I believe
> >that it is being readied for transfer to some part of the Smithsonian, but
> >I could be wrong about that. Wouldn't it look great hanging above the
> >Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo in the Air&Space? :->
> 
> 
> I was led to believe that the Enterprise was being used as
> a test vehicle at the Vandenburg site and is not operational.
>  
> TV footage (as of yesterday) shows the Enterprise at the launch
> pad at the Vandenburg complex.
>  
> What was that you saw at Dulles?
> 
> LWS
> hou2d!lws
> 
> *
I'm really getting tired of unfounded, wrong speculation on this newsgroup.
The test vehicle Enterprise is sitting on an airport tarmac in D.C. and
is now part of the Smithsonian collection.  The Smithsonian is building
an annex at either Dulles or National and will be an outdoor display
of various vehicles too large for the main Smithsonian Air & Space
Museum.  Or so says the Wash. Post. Anyway, the Enterpirse has been
sitting in D.C. now since summer (it and the 747 carrying it flew over
this city, Baltimore, on the way as a P.R. stunt for the Smithsonian).
    Please, people, if you have to say something make sure there is some evidence
to back it.  I'm tired of seeing postings saying that the our Hopkins U.V.
Telescope was on Challenger (it wasn't), or that the another major project 
we are working with, the Space Telescope, was on board (it wasn't and
wasn't scheduled to go up until late October).  I'm sure that Dr. Durrance,
the Hopkins mission specialist that was to go up with the H.U.(V)T. would
be suprised to find out that he was blown up with Challenger:-).
     By the way, the shuttle at Vandenburg is the Discovery.  That is the
shuttle that DoD will be using in the frseeable future for Vandenburg 
launches, as far as I am told by several sources.
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Earle A. Sugar
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