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[URL=http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-031510a.html]NASA readies retired test shuttle Enterprise for one last flight[/URL] [i]Enterprise, NASA's first space shuttle prototype, which in 1985 was delivered to the Smithsonian as a museum piece after proving that a winged spacecraft could land safely as a glider, is now being readied by the space agency for what is planned to be its final ferry flight atop a modified Boeing 747 jetliner. Enterprise's upcoming flight comes as a result of NASA's plan to retire the three space-worthy shuttles remaining in its fleet later this year. All three are expected to be placed on public display, with one, Discovery, heading for the Smithsonian's Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center, the annex to the National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Va., where Enterprise has been exhibited since 2003...[/i]
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