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[THEME MUSIC]

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[DRUM ROLL]

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NASA's reusable shuttle orbiter.

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Part of a new, less expensive,
space transportation system.

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A spaceship that will put our
country in the earth orbit

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freight business.

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This is Orbiter 101
as it rolled out

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of the hangar in
Palmdale, California.

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It has been named
the Enterprise.

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["STAR TREK" THEME MUSIC]

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[CLAPPING]

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It has taken four years to go
from the orbiter design stage

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to the nearly
completed spacecraft.

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These were some of the
steps along the way.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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The next stop is NASA's
Dryden Flight Research Center

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near Lancaster, California.

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It is here that the Enterprise
will be mounted piggyback

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atop a 747 for approach
and landing tests.

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Everything is nearly ready
for the upcoming tests,

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according to Director of Space
Shuttle Operations, Isaac T.

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Gillam.

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Yes, the facilities
are nearing completion.

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The 747 is currently being
modified at the Boeing

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plant in Seattle, Washington.

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We expect them to begin flight
testing of this aircraft,

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with these modifications,
in December,

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and to transport it here to
Dryden in January of 1977.

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These are the
astronauts who will

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be involved in the first test
flights of the space shuttle.

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Joe Engle, Dick Truly, Fred
Haise, and Gordon Fullerton.

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We asked Gordon
Fullerton to describe

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one of the typical
shuttle missions

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into space that
will begin in 1979.

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The shuttle system that
is launched vertically.

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About halfway up, the solids
burn out and drop off,

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and the orbiter continues on
into orbit using the thrust

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from the main liquid engines.

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The payload bay doors are opened
once the shuttle is on orbit,

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and the payload inside
is deployed or operated

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depending on the type of
mission that's to be flown.

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Once the mission
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the doors are closed the
smaller rocket engines

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that you see in the upper
left and right corners

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of the aft part of
the orbiter, are

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fired to slow the
orbiter enough to cause

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it to re-enter the atmosphere.

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It makes a nose forward,
nose high reentry,

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slowing at speed until finally
it is flying conventionally

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as an aircraft.

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However, un-powered, and makes
a gliding approach and landing

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to the runway.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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The reusable space shuttle,
a new transportation system,

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with economy its major asset.

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A transportation system capable
of delivering 65,000 pounds

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of payload into orbit.

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Drugs, metal alloys, electronic
crystals, and glass lenses all

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can be produced in
weightless space.

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Far superior to
anything made on Earth.

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Satellites will be manufactured
more inexpensively,

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because they can either
be repaired in space

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or returned to earth.

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These are but a few of the
jobs the space shuttle can

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do as it works for us
in space, and flies back

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to land like an airplane,
up to 100 times.

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