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Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its final landing of the Approach & Landing Test program

Date: October 26, 1977

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Space Shuttle Enterprise glides toward the runway during her 5th and final Free Flight of the Approach Landing Test.

Date: October 26, 1977

NASA ID: EC77-8854, S77-30023, EC77-9036, EC77-9037, S77-30393, EC77-9082, EC77-8852, S77-30393

San Diego Air and Space Museum: 55780791

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Space Shuttle Enterprise and 747 SCA #905 prior to Free flight 5 (ALT-16).

Date: October 26, 1977

NASA ID: EC77-8864

Spave Shuttle Enterprise during fifth free flight.

Precise moment of separation captured by camera from a T-38 chase plane.

Date: October 26, 1977

NASA ID: EC77-9033, EC77-9060, EC77-9034, S77-30022

"Space Shuttle Enterprise sits in a piggyback configuration atop NASA 905, a 747 carrier aircraft, prior to takeoff on the fifth and final Approach and Landing Test (ALT) free flight mission from Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC). Astronauts Fred W. Haise, Jr., commander, and C. Gordon Fullerton, pilot, later controlled the Orbiter during its two-mintue, one-second free flight and its landing - the first on a hard surface in the ALT series - at Edwards Air Force Base."

Date: October 26, 1977

NASA ID: S77-30024

Space Shuttle Enterprise landing at the Dryden Flight Research Center, during her 5th and final Free Flight of the Approach Landing Test (ALT-16). This flight lasted 2 minutes, 1 second. In total, Enterprise glided for 20 minutes, 58 seconds and was carried in the air for 19 hours, 16 minutes, 7 seconds.

Date: October 26, 1977