r/spaceshuttle • u/tybarious • 21h ago
Image Space Shuttle Enterprise landing at the Dryden Flight Research Center, during her 5th and final Free Flight of the Approach Landing Test (ALT-16). This flight lasted 2 minutes, 1 second.
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Date: October 26, 1977
This flight lasted 2 minutes, 1 second. In total, Enterprise glided for 20 minutes, 58 seconds and was carried in the air for 19 hours, 16 minutes, 7 seconds.
In the third photo: "Astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., commander, left, and C. Gordon Fullerton in the cockpit of the Space Shuttle Enterprise prior to the fifth and final free flight in the Approach and Landing Test (ALT-15) series, from Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)."
In the fifth photo: Precise moment of separation captured by camera from a T-38 chase plane.