echristian@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (ERIC ECHRISTIAN) (04/18/91)
Seeing a few entries on the Shuttle Ferry reminded me: I have a puzzle that perhaps someone on the net can solve. Does anyone know why there was a 747 Shuttle Ferry parked at the airport in El Paso, TX in February? Several of us saw it, but couldn't figure out why it was there. There was also a Guppy parked next to it. Thanks Eric Christian ECHRISTIAN@LHEAVX.GSFC.NASA.GOV Everything to excess, moderation is for monks. Lazarus Long (R. Heinlein)
shafer@skipper.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer) (04/19/91)
In article <4961@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> echristian@lheavx.gsfc.nasa.gov (ERIC ECHRISTIAN) writes:
Seeing a few entries on the Shuttle Ferry reminded me: I have a puzzle that
perhaps someone on the net can solve. Does anyone know why there was a
747 Shuttle Ferry parked at the airport in El Paso, TX in February?
Several of us saw it, but couldn't figure out why it was there. There was
also a Guppy parked next to it.
That's not a Shuttle Ferry, that's a Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA). To
be precise, that's the new SCA that was just recently delivered. The old
SCA (905) lives here and I see it every day.
Why is it in El Paso? Because that's where JSC keeps it (the same is true
of the Guppy). The Vomit Comet (used in zero-g studies) is there too.
JSC has quite a little presence in El Paso.
Everything has to be somewhere.
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NASA Ames Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA
Of course I don't speak for NASA
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