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NASA marks fifty years since Enterprise’s unveiling
NASA has published an anniversary feature recalling the first space-shuttle orbiter’s public unveiling on 17 September 1976.
The vehicle was named Enterprise following a campaign by Star Trek fans. This is a fifty-year commemoration, not the unveiling of a new spacecraft; no historic photographs are reproduced here.
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