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NEW YORK – NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft is moved into place so the space shuttle Enterprise can be removed. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2786
NEW YORK – NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft is moved into place so the space shuttle Enterprise can be removed. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2790
NEW YORK – Technicians detach space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2774
NEW YORK – Technicians ready the NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft for the removal of space shuttle Enterprise. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2787
NEW YORK – Technicians detach space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2775
NEW YORK – Technicians detach space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2773
NEW YORK – Technicians detach space shuttle Enterprise from the top of NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2795
NEW YORK – Cranes and other equipment wait as NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft and space shuttle Enterprise are moved into place so the shuttle can be taken off the top of the aircraft. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2792
NEW YORK – Space shuttle Enterprise hangs in a specialized sling as a crew continues demate operations for the prototype spacecraft. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2799
NEW YORK – NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft is moved into place so the space shuttle Enterprise can be removed. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-2785
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NEW YORK – NASA's shuttle carrier aircraft is moved into place so the space shuttle Enterprise can be removed. The work took place at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City. Enterprise, a prototype built to test aspects of the space shuttle design, will be displayed at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett
The Space Shuttle program was the United States government's manned launch vehicle program from 1981 to 2011, administered by NASA and officially beginning in 1972. The Space Shuttle system—composed of an orbiter launched with two reusable solid rocket boosters and a disposable external fuel tank— carried up to eight astronauts and up to 50,000 lb (23,000 kg) of payload into low Earth orbit (LEO). When its mission was complete, the orbiter would re-enter the Earth's atmosphere and lands as a glider. Although the concept had been explored since the late 1960s, the program formally commenced in 1972 and was the focus of NASA's manned operations after the final Apollo and Skylab flights in the mid-1970s. It started with the launch of the first shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981, on STS-1. and finished with its last mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.
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