From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: rikp@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Virgin Galactic's First Commercial Spaceship Named "V.S.S.   
   Enterprise"   
      
      
   > About time there was a spaceship Enterprise that actually went into   
   > space. aWe all remember how the misguided desire of Trekkies to have   
   > the FIRST shuttle be called Enterprise only had the effect of ensuring   
   > that the Enterprise was the one that didn't go into space.   
   Shuttle Enterprise was intended to be refitted into an orbiter   
   (Enterprise-A? ;-)) but the plans changed.  I didn't find out about   
   this until recently.   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_enterprise   
   Rik   
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