Space Shuttle "Enterprise" Comes to NASM
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Creator: Hrabak, Dale
Form/Genre: Photographic print
Date: 1985
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: January 1986
National Air and Space Museum's Space Shuttle "Enterprise" flew into Washington Dulles International Airport on November 16 atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier Aircraft. Using cranes, the "Enterprise" was removed from the top of the 747 and lowered to the tarmac at Dulles on November 17. On December 6 the National Aeronautic and Space Administration transferred title of the "Enterprise" to the National Air and Space Museum at a black tie gala at the airport.
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Featured in TORCH, January 1986
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: January 1986
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1985
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85-17421-15 or 85-17421.15
Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print