{"id":14469,"date":"2018-02-18T23:16:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-flight-of-space-shuttle-just-not-into-space-3\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T23:16:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T23:16:21","slug":"first-flight-of-space-shuttle-just-not-into-space-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-flight-of-space-shuttle-just-not-into-space-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Flight of Space Shuttle \u2013 Just Not Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-889\" title=\"Enterprise on Boeing 747\" alt=\"Enterprise on Boeing 747\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/48d5b__Space-Shuttle-Enterprise-ALT-test-on-a-Boeing-747-on-February-18-1977-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/48d5b__Space-Shuttle-Enterprise-ALT-test-on-a-Boeing-747-on-February-18-1977-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Space-Shuttle-Enterprise-ALT-test-on-a-Boeing-747-on-February-18-1977.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>February 18, 1977<\/p>\n<p>The first Space Shuttle orbiter, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise<\/a>, embarks on its maiden flight in \u201ccaptive mode,\u201d attached to the top of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boeing_747\" target=\"_blank\">Boeing 747<\/a> jumbo jet. The flight is the first of five captive flights before the orbiter is finally released to land on its own. The nine month test program is conducted through November 1977 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dryden_Flight_Research_Facility\" target=\"_blank\">Dryden Flight Research Facility<\/a> to demonstrate that the orbiter can fly and land like an airplane. The Enterprise, while the first shuttle to fly, was not the first space-worthy orbiter and was only used for testing purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/02\/18\/first-flight-of-space-shuttle-just-not-into-space\/\">First Flight of Space Shuttle &#8211; Just Not Into Space<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/02\/18\/first-flight-of-space-shuttle-just-not-into-space\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 1977 The first Space Shuttle orbiter, the Enterprise, embarks on its maiden flight in \u201ccaptive mode,\u201d attached to the top of a Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The flight is the first of five captive flights before the orbiter is finally released to land on its own. The nine month test program is conducted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[399,2517,248,3028,3059,1509],"class_list":["post-14469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-first","tag-flight","tag-into","tag-just","tag-shuttle","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}