Space Shuttle Prototype Testing #4
by Nasa
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Space Shuttle Prototype Testing #4
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Nasa
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Photograph - Photograph
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Space Shuttle prototype testing. Prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise just after release from its 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) on a test flight back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, California, USA. This was the first flight without its tail cone. With a crew of two (Joe Engle and Richard Truly), this was the fourth 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 12 October 1977.
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July 31st, 2016
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