Talk:Space Shuttle Enterprise

Usenet
Discussion on usenet about this article See here Anonymous Coward 15:02 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)


 * The picture image:Shuttle-enterprise.jpg is actually of Endeavour. I replaced the picture with one of Enterprise on a test flight for this article. -- Ke4roh 23:17, 9 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Pictures
More picture of Enterprise.

Caption
I took "Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center" out of the caption for the modern picture of Enterprise because the whole name seems hopelessly cumbersome to me and I haven't figured out a better way to do it. The text of the article names the center, which I think is sufficient. I was trying (though admittedly didn't do a great job) to make captivating captions for the article. I welcome your help. -- ke4roh 22:23, Jul 12, 2004 (UTC)

Star Trek
Does the Star Trek paragraph really deserve to be the second paragraph in the article? --Doradus 13:28, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)


 * Certainly a mention of Star Trek should, since that was the inspiration for the name. I don't know if ALL the info needs to be in the second graph, though. --Golbez 18:44, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)

Photo
here is a photo from last year's reatoration.

Was Columbia construction started first?
I read somewhere that the first Shuttle to start construction was Columbia, with construction of Enterprise started soon after. Seems like a backasswards way to do things, to start building the first ship intended for spaceflight before beginning construction of the atmospheric flight test article. If that's true, NASA was fortunate Enterprise's ALT flights didn't turn up any difficulties that would've required major shape changes.

Another use of this Enterprise in fiction.
In Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's book "Footfall", refitting Enterprise was considered (and possibly was done, been a while since I read the book) to be attached along with the other Shuttles to an Orion style ship. The purpose of that was to fight an alien invasion of Earth.

Change "was" to "is"
The current first sentence is states that the shuttle "was", in past tense. Despite being unused presently, it is still intact today. The Space Shuttle Discovery uses present-tense "is", despite being unused. Which would be more correct to use? 64.67.42.115 (talk) 02:40, 18 February 2023 (UTC)