Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!elroy!jpl-devvax!leem From: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Shuttle from Vandenberg Message-ID: <4462@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> Date: 20 Feb 89 20:05:40 GMT References: <919@cs.rit.edu> <1989Feb11.234744.20258@utzoo.uucp> <2481@phred.UUCP> <1989Feb17.164009.3238@utzoo.uucp> <47@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> Reply-To: leem@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Lee Mellinger) Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. Lines: 22 In article <47@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> kluksdah@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Norman C. Kluksdahl) writes: :In article <1989Feb17.164009.3238@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: :> 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". :> :> I fear your memory fails you: Enterprise flew the glide tests, and it was :> definitely meant to be a spaceworthy orbiter at the time it was built. : :My memories indicate that Enterprise was a prototype vehicle for the purpose :of glide testing, and possibly integration testing (although I have been :known to have periodic bit errors in memory :-) :-) ). Seems to me that :Challenger (OV-99) was originally constructed as an airframe test article, :and later finished as a flight-worthy vehicle. It also seems to me that :Enterprise was never intended for spaceflight. : :Norman Kluksdahl Arizona State University : That is what I remember as well Lee