Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: New Space Shuttle Message-ID: <1989Aug12.060332.9724@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <2277@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: Sat, 12 Aug 89 06:03:32 GMT 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. Without major structural replacement -- amounting to building a new orbiter -- it could never achieve the full payload of a late-production orbiter like Atlantis. That's more critical than it used to be, since a more conservative attitude about weight limits now prevails, and a lot of major missions are weight-limited. Building Endeavour makes sense. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu