1977 NASA Space News Roundup Space Shuttle Enterprise First Free Flight ALT JSC For Sale

Original NASA Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center Space News Roundup, Vol. 16 No. 17, Friday, August 19, 1977, featuring extensive contemporary coverage of the historic first free flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101).The dramatic front page features Enterprise separating from NASA’s modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, with the photograph captioned “SEPARATION POINT.”The lower portion of the front page features astronauts Fred W. Haise Jr. and C. Gordon Fullerton following the successful flight, together with an image of Enterprise during its unpowered landing. The photographs are captioned “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!”Haise and Fullerton piloted Enterprise during its historic first free-flight Approach and Landing Test on August 12, 1977, only one week before this issue was published.Fred Haise is especially well known as the Lunar Module Pilot of Apollo 13, adding further astronaut-related interest to this original NASA publication.Joe L. “Jack” Day NASA Archive ProvenanceThis original publication was preserved as part of the personal NASA archive of Joe L. “Jack” Day, a longtime NASA employee associated with the Manned Spacecraft Center / Johnson Space Center.Original 1977 NASA/JSC publication — not a reproduction.A final RR sale image may be shown among the listing photographs solely for provenance/reference purposes and is not included in the sale. Buyer receives only the original Space News Roundup shown and described.ConditionOriginal vintage condition with noticeable age-related toning, foxing/brown spotting and staining throughout, including staining/discoloration along the upper portion of the front page. There is also edge and corner wear, creasing and small areas of age-related paper wear.Please carefully examine all photographs for the exact condition. The item is being offered as an original historical NASA publication and no attempt has been made to restore or clean it.An outstanding contemporary NASA publication documenting one of the defining milestones in the development of the Space Shuttle program — Enterprise’s first free flight — with Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton prominently featured.
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