Re: STS-1/Disaster

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From: Mary Shafer
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:08

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On 16 Dec 92 19:29:06 GMT, jeremys@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeremy "EL HOMBRE" Scheinberg) said:

j> Also, I realize the whole "Columbia disaster" thing is ridiculous, but does 
j> Enterprise have engines or not?  I seem to remember it conducting its
j> glide tests with that cone on the end, over the SSMEs.

No, no engines at all.  Enterprise did have mockups so that it was
correct aerodynamically and in the mass properties, but it didn't
have engines or the RCS.  (It didn't need either, of course.)

--
Mary Shafer  DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov                    Of course I don't speak for NASA
 "A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all."  Unknown US fighter pilot

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