The 28-year-old Charles, then a prince, greeted Enterprise and its crew after the test vehicle's final test flight in October 1977.
NASA gave Charles, a 28-year-old prince at the time, a commemorative photo album that day. He also scored an original watercolor by space artist Robert McCall.King Charles III, then a 28-year-old prince, met the four-person crew of NASA's space shuttle Enterprise on Oct. 26, 1977, shortly after the test vehicle completed its fifth and final"free flight" in Earth's atmosphere.
Enterprise was built to test the shuttle's design on test flights in Earth's atmosphere. The vehicle didn't have a functional heat shield or engines; it was carried aloft by NASA'sEnterprise completed five such free flights, with two NASA astronauts at the controls each time. Those two were either Fred Haise and Gordon Fullerton or Joe Engle and Richard Truly .
Charles — who became king upon the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, on Sept. 8, 2022 but is being officially crowned today — met all four of the Enterprise crewmates on Oct. 26, 1977.
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