The prototype space shuttle orbiter Enterprise drew thousands of spectators on a chilly winter day as it was towed along 10th Street East (now Challenger Way) near Lancaster Boulevard in Lancaster, Calif.
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The prototype space shuttle orbiter Enterprise drew thousands of spectators on a chilly winter day as it was towed along 10th Street East (now Challenger Way) near Lancaster Boulevard in Lancaster, Calif., on its overland journey to NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards, Calif., on Jan. 31, 1977. Never designed for actual space flight, the Enterprise would soon be the focus of the in-atmosphere Approach and Landing Tests that would validate the shuttle’s capability to make a precise runway landing following return from space.1977
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