The Space Shuttle Enterprise, the first space shuttle orbiter, arrives at Washington Dulles International Airport riding piggyback aboard a Boeing 747 on December 6, 1985 for transfer to the Museum's collection. NASA used the Enterprise for approach, landing and launch pad tests in the 1970s. 

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Mark Avino

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