Sept. 17, 1976

Posted October 11, 2007, 12:52 pm
Credit Growing Bolder

-- NASA unveils its first space shuttle, the Enterprise. A year later, Enterprise becomes the first space shuttle to fly freely when a Boeing 747 airplane lifts it to a height of 25,000 feet and releases it to glide back to Edwards Air Force Base.

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