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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
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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?