The first space shuttle, Enterprise, never made it to space ... Fred Haise, best known as a crewmember on Apollo 13, commanded the flight with Gordon Fullerton as second-in-command.

The first flight of the program consisted of the Space Shuttle Enterprise attached to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. These flights were to determine how well the two vehicles flew together.

On August 12, 1977, NASA entered a new era with the launch of the Enterprise, a space shuttle prototype that never actually reached space. But despite falling short of even cruising altitude in a ...

The Space Shuttle Enterprise took her first flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California. The spacecraft was loaded atop a 747 transport place that carried the craft to 25,000 feet.

Enterprise will be placed on a barge that will move by tugboat up the Hudson River to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in June. The shuttle will be lifted by crane and placed on the flight ...

Tuesday, August 12 was the 26th anniversary of the first free flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise. On August 12, 1978, the orbiter was first carried into the air on NASA’s 747, a converted ...

R: The Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise inside of Marshall Space Flight Center's Dynamic Test Stand ... In 1974, construction of the world’s first space shuttle, known then as Orbital Vehicle-101 ...

The one space shuttle ... Enterprise, officially designated OV-101, served as a test vehicle in 1977 before NASA was ready to send the orbiters into space -- the honor of that historic space ...

NEW YORK — Space shuttle Enterprise took to the air Friday morning (April 27) for the first time in more than a quarter-century, but the two-hour flight is also to be its last. Its final ...

but never flew in space. The prototype orbiter was used for vital approach and landing tests that paved the way for the first orbital shuttle flight in 1981. The Enterprise was named after the ...

But STS-1 was a remarkable first flight nonetheless. Here’s a few things you might not know about the pioneering space shuttle mission. When the shuttle’s two pencil-shaped solid rocket ...