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When construction of NASA's first Space Shuttle began #OTD in 1974, its name hadn't yet been chosen. First called the Constitution, it was later named Enterprise after the fictional ship in #StarTrek! 🖖

Learn about Enterprise and its naming process: https://go.nasa.gov/3oGdbM2
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40 Years Ago: Space Shuttle Enterprise rolls to the Pad

Kelli Mars (NASA)
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in reply to NASA

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soapone
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Will I learn that the people who designed the space shuttle as a concept later designed and built the Apollo platform and then quit because congress was micromanaging their shuttle design? Literally walked out of board meetings in the design stage because politics forced it into the monstrosity it became and later blew up from.

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