The Space Shuttle prototype Enterprise flies free after being released from NASA’s 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) over Rogers Dry Lakebed during the second of five free flights carried out ...
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.
The four-engine 747 then banked steeply to the right ... most of them employees of base contractors, watched the shuttle fly above them. The jet carrier made a wide sweep toward the ocean, then ...