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

[Eric Dittman]

> > > 3) Colombia is the oldest shuttle (Challenger was, until it went).
> > 
> > This isn't right.  It was Enterprise, then Columbia, *then* Challenger.
> 
> 	I thought the Atlantis was older then the Challenger. It was was
> "new generation" space shuttle w/ all the upgrades and such after the
> other three were built.

Challenger was OV-99.  OV-99 was supposed to be a structural
test article, but the decision was made to build the frame
into a complete functioning orbiter instead of using it for
destructive stress tests.
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