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Spy Fi
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49 years ago today on 12 August 1977, Enterprise conducted its first Approach and Landing Test (ALT), after detaching from the modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), astronauts Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton safely landed on the dry lakebed runway at Edwards AFB.

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Spy Fi
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“All these vessels were called 'Enterprise'.” It’s wild that OV-101 was on that wall in the TREK universe, when it was only named ‘Enterprise’ because of STAR TREK! * Causality Loop Alert *

Spy Fi
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This is the same Fred Haise that was the LEM Pilot for Apollo 13. He went on to fly 4 more Approach and Landing Tests. The epilogue in APOLLO 13 (1995) states “he never flew in space again.” Although true, It would have been great if they acknowledged this service.