‘Better Than Any Simulation’: 40 Years Since Enterprise Took the Shuttle From Ground to Air (Part 2)

Boasting the aerodynamic tail cone for four of the independent flights, Enterprise demonstrated the capabilities of the Space Shuttle in the low atmosphere. Photo Credit: NASA

Forty years ago, this fall, the first member of NASA’s Space Shuttle fleet was structurally complete and well on the way towards her first mission. Yet unlike the [...]