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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: space news from March 27 AW&ST
Message-ID: <1989May11.202243.1111@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Thu, 11 May 89 20:22:43 GMT

In article <52000@philabs.Philips.Com> rfc@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Robert Casey) writes:
>I believe I once heard that Enterprise was damaged (bent frame? or something)
>and was not flightworthy.  Any truth to this?

No damage that I know of.  It's overweight and well below normal orbiter
specs, but that's another story.  If you did a thorough refit on it, you
could theoretically fly it into space, although payload would be low due
to the overweight structure.
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