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Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747. [1] It was constructed without engines or a functional ...
Roddenberry and the Star Trek cast on hand for the space shuttle Enterprise ' s rollout on September 17, 1976. The film was the first major Hollywood adaptation of a television series that had been off the air for nearly a decade to retain its original principal cast. [21]
NASA received the Space Shuttle orbiter later named Enterprise, on 14 January. This unpowered sub-orbital space plane was launched off the top of a modified 747 and was flown uncrewed until 13 August until a human crew landed the Enterprise for the first time. In August and September, the two Voyager spacecraft to the outer planets were launched.
Enterprise on its approach during the second free-flight. The final phase of flight testing involved free-flights. These saw Enterprise mated to the SCA and carried to a launch altitude, before being released to glide to a landing on the runways at Edwards AFB. The intention of these flights was to test the flight characteristics of the orbiter ...
Space shuttle Enterprise, riding on the back of the NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, lands at JFK International Airport, Friday, April 27, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) April 27 ...
Roddenberry (third from the right) in 1976 with most of the cast of Star Trek at the rollout of the Space Shuttle Enterprise at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale, California. Lacking funds in the early 1970s, Roddenberry was unable to buy the full rights to Star Trek for $150,000 ($1.18 million in 2023) from Paramount.
The shuttle was originally to be named Constitution, but a letter-writing campaign of from Star Trek fans consisting of "hundreds of thousands of letters" petitioned for name to be changed in honor of Star Trek's USS Enterprise. For a science fiction entertainment franchise and cultural phenomenon to have such influence over a real-world ...
1977 ALT-11: Enterprise: N/A Haise: Fullerton: Free flights (1) August 12 1977 ALT-12: Enterprise: 5 min 21 s: Haise: Fullerton (2) September 13 1977 ALT-13: Enterprise: 5 min 28 s Engle: Truly (3) September 23 1977 ALT-14: Enterprise: 5 min 34 s Haise: Fullerton (4) October 12 1977 ALT-15: Enterprise: 2 min 34 s Engle: Truly (5) October 26 ...