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3 unusual facts about Approach and Landing Tests


Approach and Landing Tests

Upon the orbiter's entry into service, NASA began an extensive program of tests using Enterprise to ensure all of the systems it had put in place for the shuttle project functioned as designed.

Then, the orbiter was flown to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, to fit check the facilities at LC39 and the procedures to be used in launching the shuttle.

These tests first saw Enterprise taken to the Dynamic Structural Test Facility in Alabama, where the complete stack subjected to vertical ground vibration tests, assessing the structural responses to a number of scenarios.



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