Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Shuttle from Vandenberg
Message-ID: <1989Feb14.163945.16527@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <919@cs.rit.edu> <1989Feb11.234744.20258@utzoo.uucp> <2481@phred.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 89 16:39:45 GMT

In article <2481@phred.UUCP> petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis) writes:
>Henry, it is OV-106. Six Shuttles were built. This includes "Pathfinder"
>and "Enterprise". Pathfinder was used for tooling fits, Enterprise for
>gliding tests. Pathfinder is permanently displayed horizontally at the
>Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. 

If I'm not mistaken, Pathfinder was a mockup only and did not have an
orbiter number.  The four original orbiters, Enterprise, Columbia,
Discovery, and Atlantis, were 101 through 104.  When it became clear that
Enterprise was not in spaceworthy condition, one of the test structures,
OV-099, was refitted as an orbiter and became Challenger.  So the next
number is indeed 105.
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