Watch: Lieutenant Uhura's NASA recruitment film from 1977

“Captain at last!”

There have been many US ships named Enterprise, most notably the World War 2 carrier, for which Star Trek’s ship was named:

The orbiter Enterprise was built for testing, and never went into space, now at the Intrepid Museum in NYC:

And the part where Alan Bean explains the stick reminds me how one shuttle astronaut (John Young, maybe?) described flying the shuttle in its final, glider approach as a “flying brick.” Yikes.

Flaired jeans already came back once before, in the '90s…I guess it’s running on a 20-25 year cycle.

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Yeah you could jump out of it, fall at terminal velocity, and the shuttle would still be on the ground before you.

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