This Week in NASA History: 100th Space Shuttle Flight Launches -- Oct. 11, 2000

This Week in NASA History: 100th Space Shuttle Flight Launches -- Oct. 11, 2000: Space shuttle Enterprise made its first appearance mated to supportive propellant containers/boosters cluster, as it was rolled from the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center en route to the launch pad, some 3.5 miles away, on May 1, 1979. Enterprise underwent several weeks of fit and function checks on the pad in preparation for STS-1.