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- From: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
- Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
- Subject: Re: Beware! "Discovery" mockup is really ISF
- Message-ID: <3910@phred.UUCP>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 12:57:27 GMT
- References: <BtvFrF.38F@spock.dis.cccd.edu>
- Reply-To: petej@phred.UUCP (Peter Jarvis)
- Organization: <BtvFrF.38F@spock.dis.cccd.edu>o
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- In article <BtvFrF.38F@spock.dis.cccd.edu> markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu (Mark Bixby) writes:
- >Last week while on vacation in Seattle, my wife & I attended the Home Show,
- >which was heavily advertised as having a "full-scale mockup of the space
- >shuttle Discovery". What we actually found was a full-scale mockup of the
- >Industrial Space Facility, plus some NASA exhibits..........
- >
- >I'm not sure why this stuff is being displayed at a home-improvement show. We
- >found some flyers that clearly said "space shuttle Discovery".........
- >--
- >Mark Bixby Internet: markb@spock.dis.cccd.edu
-
- I also heard this from a friend of mine at work. (I live in the area).
- Obviously someone doesn't know what he's talking about or they are hard
- up to get people to the home show.
-
- However, if you want to see some pretty good Shuttle mockups, visit the
- Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. There *is* a full scale
- Enterprise mockup there along with partials of the Columbia, Atlantis
- and Endeavour. Outside is the original Pathfinder Shuttle mounted on an
- ET with two SRB's strapped to it. Pathfinder was the first "Shuttle" made
- for tooling and fitting purposes.
-
- Peter Jarvis............
-