Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120427:14:36:00
A test vehicle? >> absolutely not. i think it was critical. the challenges of approach and landing in the shuttle had to be run out in a test. that was not something that you could try without actually a landing test, and it turns out that the shuttle is really optimized to fly mock 25 in space. so there are real challenges with landing it, so that approach and landing test was critical to bring that out. in addition to that enterprise kept giving. when there were times when we had problems with the orbitors we were able to go back to enterprise and can in a by hraoeuz pieces to perform tests....
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