Space Shuttle Flown to Dulles

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Summary

The Space Shuttle Enterprise is flown to Washington Dulles International Airport atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft. It is officially transferred to the National Air and Space Museum on December 6.

Subject

  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • National Air and Space Museum

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, "The Torch," January 1986, p. 3.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, [email protected]

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Date

  • November 16, 1985
  • 1985

Topic

  • Airplanes
  • Space shuttles
  • Interagency Transfers
  • Space flight
  • Space vehicles

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