A couple very interesting things about that Vandy pic of the Enterprise ---

First --- I like the fact that they left the Payload Bay Door supports/lift bars in place. Makes you wonder how those would have been removed in "operational" flights.

Second --- the top segment of the starboard SRB has quite a lot of markings/etc. --- I don't believe I've seen that much "clutter" on a shuttle SRB in other pictures. Anyone know anything about it?

It's also interesting to me, that by the time they were doing these Vandy fit checks and such, that the ET's had changed over to their "unpainted" variant. I'm so used to seeing Enterprise with an "all white stack" in her pictures that seeing her with a brown ET jarred me.

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