Enterprise Photograph - Space Shuttle Prototype Testing #2 by Nasa

Space Shuttle Prototype Testing #2 is a photograph by Nasa which was uploaded on July 29th, 2016.

Space Shuttle Prototype Testing #2

Space Shuttle prototype testing. Test flight for prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise. After its release from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft... more

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Space Shuttle Prototype Testing #2

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Nasa

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Space Shuttle prototype testing. Test flight for prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise. After its release from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), Enterprise glided back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, California, USA. A tail cone (right) smoothed turbulent airflow. With a crew of two (Joe Engle and Richard Truly), this was the second of five free-flight flights in the Shuttle's Approach and Landing Tests (ALT) program. The tests prepared for the first space mission with the Space Shuttle Columbia in April 1981. The Space Shuttles flew 135 missions into low Earth orbit between 1981 and 2011. Photographed on 13 September 1977.

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July 29th, 2016