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From: petej@phred.UUCP (Pete Jarvis)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Shuttle from Vandenberg
Keywords: <1989Feb14.163945.16527@utzoo.uucp>
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Date: 21 Feb 89 14:12:49 GMT
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In article <QXycoxy00VQD1FwUYy@andrew.cmu.edu> 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" was not a mockup. It was the Shuttle used for the glide tests
from the 747. Columbia was the first Shuttle built to launch into Space,
followed by Challenger, Discovery and Atlantis.

Peter Jarvis........