{"id":15112,"date":"2019-09-17T23:18:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/nasa-unveils-enterprise-5\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T23:18:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T23:18:41","slug":"nasa-unveils-enterprise-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/nasa-unveils-enterprise-5\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Unveils Enterprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shuttle-enterprise-star-tre.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[2148]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2149\" title=\"Space Shuttle Enterprise and Star Trek Cast\" alt=\"Space Shuttle Enterprise and Star Trek Cast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/a91f6__shuttle-enterprise-star-tre-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shuttle-enterprise-star-tre-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/shuttle-enterprise-star-tre.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>September 17, 1976<\/p>\n<p>NASA rolls out <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise\" target=\"_blank\">the first Space Shuttle,\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise\" target=\"_blank\">Enterprise<\/a>,<\/em> from its assembly facility to a waiting crowd. Included in the crowd was a delegation of actors from the Star Trek TV series.\u00a0Originally to be named <em>Constitution<\/em>, a write-in campaign by Star Trek fans convinced President Gerald Ford and NASA to rename the Space Shuttle.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Enterprise<\/em> was a prototype shuttle, designed for the early testing phase of the Space Shuttle program. It was built without engines or a functional heat shield. While it performed various atmospheric test flights, and was originally intended to be retrofitted for spaceflight, it was determined that it would be less expensive to simply build new shuttles. Therefore the <em>Enterprise<\/em> never did actually fly into space.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/09\/17\/nasa-unveils-enterprise\/\">NASA Unveils Enterprise<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/a91f6__12830305.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12830305\">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>September 17, 1976 NASA rolls out the first Space Shuttle,\u00a0Enterprise, from its assembly facility to a waiting crowd. Included in the crowd was a delegation of actors from the Star Trek TV series.\u00a0Originally to be named Constitution, a write-in campaign by Star Trek fans convinced President Gerald Ford and NASA to rename the Space Shuttle. [&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":[2051,1439,854],"class_list":["post-15112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-enterprise","tag-nasa","tag-unveils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112"}],"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=15112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}