| Title: | Space Exploration |
| Notice: | Shuttle launch schedules, see Note 6 |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 974 |
| Total number of notes: | 18843 |
I have a question. Awhile back, I read some of the shuttle
designations for the current fleet. They were as follows:
OV 102 Columbia
OV 103 Discovery
OV 104 Atlantis
OV 105 Endeavour?
What was the Challenger designation? I would have assumed it to be
OV 101, but I thought the Challenger was build after Columbia. It's
possible that I might have the wrong designations, but I got them from
deep in this notes file. Any help?
-SK
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 551.1 | PAXVAX::MAIEWSKI | Mon Jul 31 1989 15:40 | 7 | ||
I heard that Challenger was OV 99 and that it was not originally suppose to fly. It had been built for stress testing. I believe that Enterprise, which was used for the drop tests, was OV 101 but it was too heavy to fly into space with any meaningfull cargo. That may be why they took the lighter air(space)frame 099 for the 2nd orbiter. George | |||||
| 551.2 | DIR/TITLE=topicname | CLIPR::KLAES | N = R*fgfpneflfifaL | Mon Jul 31 1989 16:08 | 2 |
See also SPACE Topic 307. | |||||
| 551.3 | No help in other topics - I've already checked. | STAR::KOHLS | No comment. | Tue Aug 01 1989 11:32 | 15 |
re .2 >See also SPACE Topic 307.
I did. It didn't answer my questions. That's why I asked them here.
I probably should have written this topic there, but most of the replies
were regarding payloads and such.
Can anyone confirm reply .1 ? I hadn't heard that, but it sounds kind
of interesting.
-SK
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| 551.4 | STAR::HUGHES | Tue Aug 01 1989 13:12 | 3 | ||
reply .1 is correct. Challenger was OV-99, originally a dynamic test article. gary | |||||