– Can someone please explain to me how they knew that carrying the spaceshuttle on the back of a 747 was possible Before they actually tried it?
Must have been a nervous first flight!
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I toured that plane at the Johnson Space Center. They did a lot of testing with scale models flown by remote control to figure out how to properly weight the plane to keep it’s nose down in flight.
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