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File:Enterprise Separates from 747 SCA for First Tailcone off Free Flight.jpg

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English: The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise rises from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) to begin a powerless glide flight back to NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, on its fourth of the five free flights in the shuttle program's Approach and Landing Tests (ALT), 12 October 1977. The tests were carried out at Dryden to verify the aerodynamic and control characteristics of the orbiters in preparation for the first space mission with the orbiter Columbia in April 1981.
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Source http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/ALT/HTML/ECN-8923.html (direct link)
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This image or video was catalogued by Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: ECN-8923.

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Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise launching from NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft

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