Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsb!dsmith From: dsmith@hplabsb.HP.COM (David Smith) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle from Vandenberg Message-ID: <5163@hplabsb.HP.COM> Date: 17 Feb 89 19:49:54 GMT References: <919@cs.rit.edu> <1989Feb11.234744.20258@utzoo.uucp> <2481@phred.UUCP> <1989Feb14.163945.16527@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: dsmith@hplabsb.UUCP (David Smith) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Lines: 17 In article pv04+@andrew.cmu.edu (Philip Verdieck) writes: >I was under the impression that Enterprise was a mockup as well, >a nice piece of propaganda to satisfy the huge mail-in to name a >shuttle "Enterprise". Either my memory fails me, or it was Columbia that >sis the actual glide tests, from on top of the 747..... Enterprise did the glide tests. Originally, it was to be called Constitution. The Trekkies mounted their letter campaign to Pres. Ford to demand the Constitution => Enterprise name change, at a time when it had already been announced that the vehicle would never be launched into space. I could hardly believe that they would mess up like that, but they did, and they were disappointed. -- David R. Smith, HP Labs dsmith@hplabs.hp.com (415) 857-7898