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	Space Shuttle Enterprise - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		It was intended to be the second space shuttle to fly after the Space Shuttle Columbia even though Enterprise was built first; however, it was found to be cheaper to refit a test article (STA-099) into the Space Shuttle Challenger.
		Enterprise was used by NASA for a variety of ground and flight tests intended to validate aspects of the shuttle program.
		Enterprise was at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before being moved to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles, where it is on display.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise (935 words)

	Space Shuttle Enterprise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At one point in the program, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after the Space Shuttle Columbia.
		Similarly, Enterprise was considered for refit to replace Challenger after the latter was destroyed, but the Space Shuttle Endeavour was built from spares instead.
		Enterprise was at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before being moved to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles, where it is on display.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise (1019 words)

	Space Shuttle Enterprise Information
		Originally, Enterprise had been intended to be refitted for orbital flight, which would have made it the second space shuttle to fly after Columbia.
		Enterprise was at the Smithsonian's hangar at Washington Dulles International Airport before being moved to the newly-built Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Dulles, where it is the centerpiece of the space collection.
		Space Shuttle Enterprise and the SCA at CFB Goose Bay, Labrador in 1983
	www.bookrags.com /Space_Shuttle_Enterprise (1145 words)

	Space Shuttle program
		The shuttle program was launched on January 5, 1972, when President Richard M. Nixon announced that NASA would proceed with the development of a reusable low cost space shuttle system.
		Enterprise was rolled out on September 17, 1976 and later conducted a very successful series of landing tests which was the first real validation of the gliding abilities of the design.
		The Space Shuttle consists of four main components; the reuseable orbiter itself, a large expendable external fuel tank, and a pair of reusable solid-fuel booster rockets.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/space_shuttle_program (3588 words)

	GPN-2000-000218 - Shuttle Enterprise Free Flight
		The Enterprise, a prototype of the Space Shuttles, and the SCA were flown to conduct the approach and landing tests at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from February to October 1977.
		The Enterprise had no propulsion system, but its first four glides to the Rogers Dry Lake runway provided realistic, in-flight simulations of how subsequent Space Shuttles would be flown at the end of an orbital mission.
		The Enterprise's last free-flight was October 26, 1977, after which it was ferried to other NASA centers for ground-based flight simulations that tested Space Shuttle systems and structure.
	grin.hq.nasa.gov /ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000218.html (466 words)

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		It was intended to be the second space shuttle to fly after the Space Shuttle Columbia even though it was built first, however, it was found to be cheaper to refit a test article (STA-099) into the Space Shuttle Challenger.
		With the completion of critical testing, the Enterprise was partially disassembled to allow certain components to be reused in other shuttles, then underwent a world tour visiting France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Canada, and the US states of California, Alabama, and Louisiana.
		Finally, on November 18, 1985, the Enterprise was ferried to Washington, D.C, where it became property of the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.informationgenius.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/space_shuttle_enterprise.html (449 words)

	Space Shuttle
		The Space Shuttle fleet was grounded following the loss of Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, and again after the destruction of Columbia during reentry on Feb. 1, 2003.
		The Shuttle travels from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (KSC), where its main components are put together, to its launch pad on a giant crawler-transporter vehicle — a trip which, at a maximum speed of 1.6 km/hr, takes about five hours.
		Born in 1968 at the height of the Apollo program, the Shuttle was designed to provide NASA with an efficient, reusable method of carrying astronauts to and from a large, permanently manned space station (with a crew of 12-24), and a multipurpose satellite launch system with the potential to replace Atlas-Centaur, Delta, and Titan rockets.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Space_Shuttle.html (3052 words)

	Encyclopedia: Space Shuttle Enterprise
		Shuttle Orbiter Endeavour (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is the sixth and most recent NASA space shuttle to be built.
		It was intended to be the second space shuttle to fly after the Space Shuttle Columbia even though Enterprise was built first; however, it was found to be cheaper to refit a test article (STA-099) into the Space Shuttle Challenger.
		Illustration of the Buran Shuttle on an Energiya booster rocket Buran-Energia on the launch pad at Baikonur Buran-Energia on the pad Buran on liftoff Buran on touchdown Buran piggybacked on an An-225 carrier Buran shuttle before liftoff.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Space-Shuttle-Enterprise (3033 words)

	NASA - Shuttle Enterprise at Center of Museum's Space Hangar
		Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, is the centerpiece of the new McDonnell Space Hangar at the National Air and Space Museum's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
		After those tests, Enterprise was flown to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, where it was mated with the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a series of vertical ground vibration tests.
		Enterprise is far from the only attraction in the new hangar, which boasts a total of 113 large space artifacts, including two Mercury capsules, an Apollo Command Module, an array of cruise missiles, satellites and space telescopes, and a Space Shuttle Main Engine (+ View Photo: Browse
	www.nasa.gov /lb/vision/earth/everydaylife/nasm_enterprise.html (1123 words)

	A Brief History of the Shuttle
		The ground tests included taxi tests of the 747 shuttle carrier aircraft with the Enterprise mated atop the SCA to determine structural loads and responses and assess the mated capability in ground handling and control characteristics up to flight takeoff speed.
		On April 10, 1979, the Enterprise was ferried to the Kennedy Space Center.
		On Nov. 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from the Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., and became the property of the Smithsonian Institution.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/4515/Shuttle.html (2918 words)

	Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
		Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named Constitution (in honor of the U.S. Constitution's Bicentennial).
		On March 13, 1978, the Enterprise was ferried atop the SCA to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where it was mated with the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a series of vertical ground vibration tests.
		Following in the Enterprise's, the orbiter Columbia was created and it became the first Space Shuttle to fly into Earth orbit in 1981.
	science.ksc.nasa.gov /shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html (1099 words)

	SPACE.com -- Quarter-Century Passes Since Shuttle Enterprise First Flew
		Shuttle Enterprise rides atop a NASA 747 jumbo jet before it is released over the Mojave Desert during one of several drop tests in 1977.
		Shuttle Enterprise glides toward a landing at Edwards Air Force Base during a 1977 drop test that paved the way for shuttle landings returning from orbit.
		On board the Enterprise were astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton, while the 747 SCA was flown by Dryden research pilots Fitz Fulton and Tom McMurtry and flight engineers Vic Horton and Skip Guidry, the latter from Johnson Space Center.
	www.space.com /missionlaunches/ov101_020812.html (832 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Space Shuttle program [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		This paperwork results from the fact that, unlike current expendable launch vehicles, the Space Shuttle is manned and has no escape systems to speak of, and therefore any accident which would result in the loss of booster would also result in the loss of the crew.
		Even before the first space shuttle was launched, science fiction filmmakers were already featuring the craft (sometimes taking extreme liberties with its physical design and operations) in their productions.
		One of the first fictional uses of the space shuttle was in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker in which a fleet of privately-produced shuttles was used to ferry personnel to a space station operated by the evil Sir Hugo Drax.
	encyclozine.com /Space_Shuttle_program (4677 words)

	Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Columbia, Columbia Space Shuttle at SPACE.com
		The NASA Space Shuttle program, officially called the Space Transportation System (STS), has been the United States’ official means of launching man into outer space for the purpose of exploration since its inception in the late 1960’s by President Richard Nixon.
		The final design of the space shuttle, which is still used today, was designed to carry between five and seven astronauts, and was to be used for approximately 100 launches, or 10 years by the program.
		Enterprise, Pathfinder, and Explorer are all full-scale replicas of other active space shuttles, but were built for display and test flights only, and have never actually entered orbit.
	www.space.com /space-shuttle (375 words)

	John F. Kennedy Space Center - Space Shuttle Enterprise
		n March 13, 1978, the Enterprise was ferried atop the SCA to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where it was mated with the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a series of vertical ground vibration tests.
		18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from the Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., and became the property of the Smithsonian Institution.
		ollowing in the Enterprise's, the orbiter Columbia was created and it became the first Space Shuttle to fly into Earth orbit in 1981.
	www-pao.ksc.nasa.gov /kscpao/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.html (1151 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition \| OPINION > Space shuttle Enterprise takes center stage, at last (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		Built in 1976 as one of the first trio of US shuttles, Enterprise never left Earth’s atmosphere and was used as a test vehicle to help its more famous sister ships Challenger and Columbia carry a generation of astronauts into space.
		Enterprise was given to the museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution, in 1985, but was kept outside for two years before a special hangar could be built to contain it at Dulles airport.
		Besides Enterprise, the space hangar has more than 100 large artifacts of human space exploration, including space capsules that carried astronauts back to Earth, a quarantine trailer to isolate any possible “Moon germs” after the first human lunar mission and an selection of cruise missiles and satellites.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/nov/01/yehey/opinion/20041101opi6.html (1268 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| 25th anniversary of first space shuttle landing test
		Before the space shuttle could orbit in space, it had to prove that it could land on Earth.
		Haise kept the shuttle's speed up to extend the glide, and as it neared touchdown, it was "high and hot." Haise realized that he was going to land long, and opened the speed brakes to slow the Enterprise.
		Space shuttle external fuel tank No. 120 is moved out of Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building and loaded onto a barge for transport to the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
	spaceflightnow.com /news/n0208/11alt (1142 words)

	Enterprise
		On March 13, 1978, the Enterprise was ferried atop the 747 to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, where it was mated with the external tank and solid rocket boosters and subjected to a series of vertical ground vibration tests.
		On Nov. 18, 1985, Enterprise was ferried from the Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport, Washington, D.C., and became the property of the Smithsonian Institution.
		During the week of June 8, 1987 Enterprise was used at Dulles Airport to test a prototype Space Shuttle landing arresting barrier, a concept proposed during the Challenger accident investigation.
	www.astronautix.com /craft/entprise.htm (2842 words)

	The Space Shuttle "Columbia" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-13)
		The Space Shuttle Enterprise (photo) would never fly in space--or even exceed the speed of sound--but it set the stage for sister ships that would.
		The magnitude of this accomplishment may be placed in proper perspective by recalling that it had only been a little over 30 years since the X-1 (photo) had first penetrated the sonic "wall." By the early 80s, pilot-astronauts were almost routinely flying an operational aerospace vehicle at speeds in excess of Mach 24.
		In that relatively short interval between the X-1 and the shuttle, the mysteries of hypersonic flight, lifting reentry, and aerothermodynamics had all been fathomed and mastered by flight researchers at Edwards.
	www.edwards.af.mil /history/docs_html/aircraft/columbia.html (369 words)

	Enterprise Class Space Shuttle
		The greatest innovation that the space shuttle proved was that it was the first reusable space vehicle in the history of Earth spaceflight.
		As most pilots noted, the space shuttle was said to have had the aerodynamic characteristics of a brick.
		The space shuttle was most noted for its use as a scientific platform, as well as its cargo hauling capabilities.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/servalan/110/spaceshuttle.html (703 words)

	STARTREK.COM : Article
		In 1979 Enterprise was transferred to NASA Kennedy Space Center where she was mated with Solid Rocket Boosters and an External Tank for pad and processing fit checks.
		While some consideration was given to modifying Enterprise to fly in space, these plans were discarded when it was determined that a substantial portion of the vehicle would have to be replaced so as to make it light enough to carry a meaningful payload into space.
		Enterprise then went into its first retirement in 1985 only to be brought back out briefly two years later to test some emergency landing restraint system hardware developed in the aftermath of the Challenger accident.
	www.startrek.com /startrek/view/news/article/3771.html (802 words)

	Spaceflight :Space Shuttle
		Shuttle payloads may reside in a shirtsleeve (pressurized) environment inside the middeck of the orbiter's crew compartment or in the unpressurized environment of the payload bay.
		The history of the Space Transportation System (STS), the official name for the Space Shuttle Program, developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), began formally on January 5, 1972, when President Richard Nixon approved the development of a reusable space transportation system.
		The Shuttle is enormously expensive to fly and has been unable to deliver on its promise of routine access to space.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/SPACEFLIGHT/Shuttle/SP25.htm (2010 words)

	Up Close and 'Awesome' (washingtonpost.com)
		This was the real deal: A space shuttle, 122 feet long, able to carry a 150,000-pound payload, that once was capable of taking man beyond the blue.
		When it was flight-ready in 1977, Enterprise, the first space shuttle, was flown on the back of an even larger plane.
		Mautner also noted that the leading edges of the shuttle's wings were taken away by NASA to help its investigation of the space shuttle Columbia's reentry breakup last year.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A17024-2004Nov1.html (573 words)

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