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Flashback: The Arrival of the Enterprise

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Today in 1979, the first test orbiter arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the back of a modified plane. The Enterprise was used to test the functionality of a winged space craft in atmosphere as part of the development of the space shuttle.

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