Dec 18 1976
From The Space Library
Astronaut-pilots in training for the Space Shuttle program had used a simulated shuttle-a Grumman Gulfstream 2 twin-engine jet in approach-and-landing maneuvers over the southern New Mexico desert at White Sands Missile Range, the New York Times reported. Dr. Christopher C. Kraft, JSC director, who recently watched the training at White Sands, said that the latter installation might eventually become a space port for launch and recovery of the shuttle. The pilots were to test an actual Space Shuttle-the Enterprise, unveiled this fall by Rockwell Intl.-some time next year; the first vertical launch of the shuttle had been scheduled for 1977 from KSC at Cape Canaveral, Fla. (NYT, 19 Dec 76, 41)
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