On 11/2/2010 9:01 AM, Rick Jones wrote:
In sci.space.history Damon wrote:
Huh. They've had Enterprise for years and years! Mostly hidden
away in a storage hanger.

That was rectified:

http://www.nasm.si.edu/museum/udvarh...ce_opening.cfm

If they replace Enterprise with Discovery over there, then what to do
with Enterprise? I imagine it should be at Edwards where it did its
glide tests, but that's more moving expense still.
What would be interesting to do to Enterprise is remove the skin off
half of it, so that visitors could examine the interior structure.
A cutaway Spacelab in the cargo bay would be a nice touch also.
You would have to get some surplus engines to put back into it, but NASA
wasn't having much luck even trying to give those away to museums for
shipping costs (a cutaway SSME would be very interesting to look at due
to its internal complexity).

Pat