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NASA is about to embark on the age of

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practical spaceflight with the first

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orbital flights of the space shuttle an

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orbital vehicle the size of a medium jet

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airliner

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during 1977 the Trident Center undertook

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the first approach and landing tests of

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the space shuttle air launching it from

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the back of a Boeing 747

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a special aerodynamic fairing was

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installed on the tail of the shuttle to

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smooth the airflow around the vertical

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fin of the 747 eventually however NASA

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tested the Space Shuttle without the

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tail fairing in order to assess its

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performance in the configuration it will

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have when returning from Earth orbit

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the tests demonstrated that the shuttle

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has acceptable landing performance

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another milestone in the Space Shuttle

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eventually when the Space Shuttle

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becomes operational NASA will launch the

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space shuttle from the NASA Kennedy

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Space Center

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the shuttle will be boosted into orbit

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place a scientific payload into Earth

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orbit

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position itself for re-entry re-enter

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the Earth's atmosphere at hypersonic

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speed and glide down to a landing on

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Rogers dry lane that milestone of flight

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will represent another chapter in the

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history of the NASA Dryden Flight

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Research Center a center with a long

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heritage of accomplishment a center

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looking forward accepting new challenges