Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!unmvax!indri!aplcen!haven!umd5!dschuetz From: dschuetz@umd5.umd.edu (David Schuetz) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Enterprise (was Re: New Space Shuttle) Summary: where is she? Message-ID: <5211@umd5.umd.edu> Date: 14 Aug 89 14:59:48 GMT References: <2277@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> <1989Aug12.060332.9724@utzoo.uucp> Reply-To: dschuetz@umd5.umd.edu (David Schuetz) Organization: University of Maryland, College Park Lines: 15 In article <1989Aug12.060332.9724@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes: >In article <2277@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ecf_eig@jhunix (Ian Chesterton) writes: >> I understand that the Endeavor (sp?) will cost about $1.2B Whats the >> reason for not refitting the Enterprise (as Dale Brown portrayed >> in "Silver Tower")? ... > >Enterprise is overweight and below spec and generally would have to be >rebuilt extensively to make it into a flight-ready orbiter. Just what exactly has happened to the Enterprise orbiter, anyway? I remember it being flown around the Washington Beltway (geez, has it been 3 years already?), and after that, it was on the runway at Dulles Int'l Airport. I even saw it there once, from an observation deck. But this summer we flew out of Dulles and didn't see it anywhere. Has it been stowed in a hangar, finally?