Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: New U.S. Space Shuttle Endeavour to rollout (Forwarded)
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.202425.12142@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 20:24:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr26.090619.18370@news.arc.nasa.gov> <11918@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <11918@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> rwelarat@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (RU1 Welaratna) writes:
>Four engines?  I thought all the shuttle had just three main engines with
>another two maneuvering (sp?) jets.  Can someone clear this up?

Presumably this is three flight engines plus a spare.  Actually there will
be more, since engine life is only ten flights or so.
-- 
And the bean-counter replied,           | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"beans are more important".             |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
