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- NASA Photo ID: S77-27512 File Name: 10076589.jpg
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- Film Type: 35mm cn Date Taken: 08/12/77
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- Title: Orbiter "Enterprise" soars above the NASA 747 carrier
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- Description:
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- The Shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" soars above the NASA 747 carrier
- aircraft only seconds after separating during the first free flight of the
- Shuttle Apporach and Landing Tests (ALTs) conducted on August 12, 1977 at
- Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California. Astronauts Fred W.
- Haise Jr., and C. Gordon Fullerton were the crew of the "Enterprise." The
- ALT free flights are designed to verify Orbiter subsonic airworthiness,
- integrated systems operations and pilot-guided approach and landing
- capability and satisfying prerequisites to automatic flight control and
- navigation mode.
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