OV-101 (ALT)_v_c_o_TPMBK (MSFC photo, neg. no. 7-82506, 8-24-77, 77-H-539 eq, 77-HC-340 eq)
“Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise separates from 747.”
Tweaked caption for the linked photo of separation taken just after this one:
“The Shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" separates from the NASA 747 carrier aircraft during the first free flight of the Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALTs) conducted on August 12, 1977, at Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California.
Astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., and C. Gordon Fullerton were the crew of the "Enterprise." The ALT free flights are designed to verify Orbiter subsonic airworthiness, integrated systems operations and pilot-guided approach and landing capability and satisfying prerequisites to automatic flight control and navigation mode.”
OV-101 (ALT)_v_c_o_TPMBK (MSFC photo, neg. no. 7-82506, 8-24-77, 77-H-539 eq, 77-HC-340 eq)
“Shuttle Orbiter Enterprise separates from 747.”
Tweaked caption for the linked photo of separation taken just after this one:
“The Shuttle Orbiter 101 "Enterprise" separates from the NASA 747 carrier aircraft during the first free flight of the Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests (ALTs) conducted on August 12, 1977, at Dryden Flight Research Center in Southern California.
Astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr., and C. Gordon Fullerton were the crew of the "Enterprise." The ALT free flights are designed to verify Orbiter subsonic airworthiness, integrated systems operations and pilot-guided approach and landing capability and satisfying prerequisites to automatic flight control and navigation mode.”