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Space Shuttle Orbiter mounted on top of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, 1977.
Space Shuttle Orbiter mounted on top of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, 1977. The Shuttle Orbiter is often transported this way from landing site to launch site. Here it is being flown prior to early landing tests of the Orbiter, during which it was released from the 747 aircraft and glided into land as it would on return from space. The first landing test took place on 12 August 1977.
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AR921657
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Image
Purpose
Public
Size
4807px × 3635px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1970s
20th century
AEROPLANE
AIR TRANSPORT
AIRCRAFT
Airplane
AMERICA
American
ASTRONAUT
Boeing 747
Carrying
color
concept
country
Flying
INNOVATION
Jumbo Jet
LOCATION
manned spaceflight
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Oxford Science Archive
Photograph
PLANE
Print Collector1
Science
SEVENTIES
Space
SPACE SHUTTLE
Space Shuttle Enterprise
SPACE TRAVEL
SPACECRAFT
Technology
transport
TRANSPORTATION
UNITED STATES
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
usa