Space Shuttle Enterprise Landing at Dryden Flight Research Center
Dublin Core
Title
Space Shuttle Enterprise Landing at Dryden Flight Research Center
Alternative Title
Space Shuttle Enterprise Landing at Dryden
Subject
Dryden Flight Research Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)
NASA
Space Shuttle Program (U.S.)
Enterprise (Space shuttle)
Description
The Space Shuttle Enterprise landing at Dryden Flight Research Center (present-day Armstrong Flight Research Center) at Palmdale, California. Enterprise was not used for space flight, but rather for a series of landing tests after being flown to altitude on the back of a Boeing 747 jet. The Space Shuttle was meant as a reusable alternative to the traditional ballistic rockets used to launch manned spacecraft in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1981 to 2011, when the fleet was retired, five shuttles were flown over 130 times. It was the first space launch system that was mostly reusable, as the shuttles themselves and the solid rocket boosters were reused multiple times. Space shuttles were launched from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) and Launch Complex 39B (LC-39B) at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Merritt Island, Florida.
Source
Original color photographic print, August 12, 1977: Leonard Pugh Collection.
Date Created
1977-08-12
Contributor
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original color photographic print, August 12, 1977.
Is Part Of
Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
image/jpg
Extent
84.2 KB
Medium
1 color photographic print
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Dryden Flight Research Center, Palmdale, California
Accrual Method
Donation
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Geography Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by Leonard Pugh and is provided here by RICHES of Central Florida for educational purposes only.
Contributing Project
Curator
Michlowitz, Robert
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
External Reference
"The Shuttle." National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Accessed August 21, 2015. http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/the_shuttle/.
"Enterprise(OV-101)." Kennedy Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Accessed September 9, 2015. http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/resources/orbiters/enterprise.htm.
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
1 color photographic print
Collection
Citation
“Space Shuttle Enterprise Landing at Dryden Flight Research Center,” RICHES, accessed April 24, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/6126.