Discovery

[Chip Fetrow]

The shuttle at the Udvar-Hazy Center is Enterprise, which never flew  
into space.  It never even had the external tank attached or engines  
installed.

On the other hand, Enterprise had ejection seats for the pilot and  
commander (it never carried more than two), which Columbia had as  
well, but were removed when they started carrying mission  
specialists.  No other shuttle had ejection seats.  It was, and is,  
considered bad form for two people to punch out and leave five  
behind.  No more ejection seats once they flew with more than two on  
board.

--chip

On Mar 10, 2011, at 1:00 PM, tacos-request at amrad.org wrote:

> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:14:21 +0000
> Subject: Discovery
>
> Hi,
>
> I hear that the Shuttle Discovery has just made its last flight and  
> is to be decomissioned and given to the Smithsonian Space and  
> Science Museum in D.C.
> Come on guys, you already have one at Udvar-Hazy in VA.
> I think you should give it to the History of Science Museum here in  
> Oxford.
>
> Couple of gallons of kerosine and I'm sure I could get that thing in  
> the air again ...
>
> Brian