Title

Space Shuttle Orbiter mounted on top of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, 1977. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Space Shuttle Orbiter mounted on top of a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft, 1977. The Shuttle Orbiter is often transported this way from landing site to launch site. Here it is being flown prior to early landing tests of the Orbiter, during which it was released from the 747 aircraft and glided into land as it would on return from space. The first landing test took place on 12 August 1977.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1977

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/NASA

Reference

HRM19B63_348

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,6Mb) / 16,0in x 12,1in / 4807 x 3635 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation carrying technology flying country space science space shuttle color colour astronaut aeroplane aircraft plane airplane innovation location century Boeing 747 concept spacecraft space travel seventies NASA air Transport United States of America United States 1970s 20th century American America USA Oxford Science Archive Jumbo Jet manned spaceflight Space Shuttle Enterprise photograph Unknown National Aeronautics and Space Administration photograph