The first pilots
NASA pilots performed a total of five free flight glide tests, known as the Approach and Landing Tests (ALT), during a nine-month period in 1977. The space agency used two two-men crews for these tests, one consisting of Fred Haise and C. Gordon Fullerton and the second Joe Engle and Richard Truly. Haise had previously served as the Lunar Module pilot during the beleaguered Apollo 13 mission. The photo above was taken on September 17, 1976, the same day that Enterprise was shown to the public for the very first time.
