Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120427:15:18:00
>> so no, only in enterprise has there been a crew that have flown in the space shuttle when it was on top of the 747. there were some active test flights where it stayed connected to the airplane, i think they did three of those, this was in the late 1970s, and then five flights where space shuttle enterprise was released from the top of the 747 and those were the approach and landing tests, landed at the runway at edwards air force base. when the shuttle is ferried, there is no crew in the orbiter, only the 747 crew on board ferrying the space shuttle. >> mark, remind us why the enterprise i...
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