Oct 18, 2022
Remembering Enterprise: The Test Shuttle That Never Flew to Space
Remembering Enterprise: The Test Shuttle That Never Flew to Space
Prior to the inaugural launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981, NASA conducted a series of performance tests with a prototype known as Enterprise. Named for the fictional Star Trek vessel, Enterprise provided our first glimpse of what a future spaceship might actually look like. Read more…
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