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To: jayef
Enterprise was not a "space craft" but more of a full scale mock up used for testing purposes in the atmosphere. It was released from a mother plane, then glided to landing. Columbia was the first shuttle spacecraft.

prisoner6

2,470 posted on 02/01/2003 7:02:59 PM PST by prisoner6 ( I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I am a FREE MAN!)
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To: prisoner6
Good Lord, MSNBC is showing animation of the break up. Talk about specualtion.

prisoner6

2,474 posted on 02/01/2003 7:06:20 PM PST by prisoner6 ( I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered! I am a FREE MAN!)
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To: prisoner6
"Enterprise was not a "space craft" but more of a full scale mock up used for testing purposes in the atmosphere. It was released from a mother plane, then glided to landing."

I remember watching this on TV...it was awesome to see the shuttle & mother ship (747? 707?) in the air...and then the shuttle being released.
2,510 posted on 02/01/2003 9:37:24 PM PST by berkeleybeej
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