Plans to refurbish it as a space-capable orbiter were scrapped, and instead it had a subsequent career as a pathfinder vehicle at launch facilities, a test vehicle for brakes and parachute systems, and a museum piece. Enterprise, the first Space Shuttle Orbiter, was originally to be named ...
The Space Shuttle Enterprise exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum opens to the public in New York City.
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The space shuttle Enterprise is seen shortly after the grand opening of the Space Shuttle Pavilion at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Thursday, July 19, 2012 in New York. (Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls) NEW YORK — The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum's brand-new exhibit...
The program started again in 1988 with the shuttle Discovery. After that launch, NASA's space program led ongoing missions, like Hubble Space Telescope maintenance and International Space Station construction. On Feb. 1...
Readers who may not be familiar with the level of Defense Department participation in NASA programs - for example, the heavy influence the Air Force had on the space shuttle's design - will find Spires's coverage excellent.Hankins, Michael W....
The Reusable Launch Vehicle Challenge Since the development of the impressive expendable Saturn-V rocket under the Apollo program until just recently, NASA committed itself to the development of new reusable launch vehicles (RLV), including the Space Shuttle, the National Ae... D Rasky,RB Pittman...
the opening credits montage is intriguing as it charts the many ships named Enterprise throughout history, leading up to the launch of the NX-01. Yet one of the last ships seen, a space shuttle-like craft that appears right before Zephram Cochrane's (James Cromwell) Phoenix towards the end...
6.(cap.) the prototype for the space shuttle, used for atmospheric flight and landing tests. [1400–50; late Middle English < Middle French, n. use of feminine ofentrepris, past participle ofentreprendreto undertake, Old French, =entre-inter-+prendreto take (seeprize1)] ...