NASA readies retired test shuttle Enterprise for one last flight, Collectspace
“Enterprise, NASA’s first space shuttle prototype, which in 1985 was delivered to the Smithsonian as a museum piece after proving that a winged spacecraft could land safely as a glider, is now being readied by the space agency for what is planned to be its final ferry flight atop a modified Boeing 747 jetliner.”
Space Shuttle Enterprise Has a New Home, 2003

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