[rescue] Re: [geeks] Crap! Not again...

[Kris Kirby]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Fernandez wrote:
> > 3) Colombia is the oldest shuttle (Challenger was, until it went).
>
> Columbia was the first shuttle, I ever heard about.  I thought the
> Challenger was #2.

Not to pick at nits, but if I remember my shuttle literature right (the
press pack contains a flip-notebook of every mission), Enterprise came
first, but was merely an aerodynamic model. Then Challenger, as another
model. Finally, Columbia was build from the ground up as a shuttle, and
Challenger was then converted into a regular shuttle.

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