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Topic: Enterprise's SRBs and ET at Vandenberg AFB
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okgli002
New Member Posts: 4
From: Australia
Registered: Jan 2015
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posted 01-22-2015 10:29 PM
  
Does any know if the solid rocket boosters and external tank used with Enterprise at Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1984 ever made it to space? If not, what was their fate? Thanks. |
OV-105
Member Posts: 816
From: Ridgecrest, CA
Registered: Sep 2000
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posted 01-23-2015 11:13 PM
The SRBs were inert and had no propellant in them. There are close up photos where you can see the inert label on the and not the Loaded like flight sets. Not sure which ET was used but if I remember right it got shipped back and was used for a flight, not sure which one. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-23-2015 11:55 PM
Enterprise was mated to External Tank 23 at VAFB. ET-23 later flew on STS-27.(There were actually four external tanks staged at VAFB: ET-23, ET-27, ET-33 and ET-34. ET-23 flew on STS-27; ET-27 on STS-34; ET-33 on STS-36; and ET-34 on STS-31.) quote:
Originally posted by OV-105:
The SRBs were inert and had no propellant in them.
I believe they were the same motor casings that were mated with Enterprise for the fit checks at Kennedy Space Center. |
Cozmosis22
Member Posts: 968
From: Texas * Earth
Registered: Apr 2011
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posted 01-26-2015 03:30 PM
Since ET-23 flew after the Challenger accident was ET-26 used on 51-L? |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42988
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 01-26-2015 05:02 PM
Yes, ET-26 was lost with Challenger on STS-51L. |
Skylon
Member Posts: 274
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Registered: Sep 2010
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posted 01-27-2015 12:30 PM
That's somewhat ironic that the ET mated to Enterprise, later flew on STS-27, as most of the crew would have flown from VAFB on STS-62-A (Guy Gardner, Mike Mullane and Jerry Ross). |
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