Approach and Landing Tests

The Approach and Landing Tests were a series of sixteen 1977 taxi and flight trials of the prototype Space Shuttle Enterprise to test the vehicle's flight characteristics, eleven while mated to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft and five in crewed free flight.

Approach and Landing Tests
Enterprise separates from the SCA on its first solo flight as part of ALT, August 12, 1977
(L-R) C. Gordon Fullerton, Fred Haise, Joe Engle and Richard Truly

The Space Shuttle program began spaceflight missions in April 1981.

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